France to work for enhanced cooperation with BD

France Ambassador in Dhaka Michel Trinquier Sunday said his country would continue to work towards enhanced cooperation and strengthened relations between Bangladesh and France.
In a message on the occasion of French National Day, he also assured of helping Bangladesh achieve its development goals through a wide range of cooperation channels.
The envoy also renewed France’s commitment towards continued and enhanced efforts of all stakeholders to improve factory safety and workers' rights, according to a news agency.
 “Consumers, owners and buyers, policy- and decision-makers – we all have a responsibility in ensuring that workers’ lives are no longer put at risk to supply western consumer markets,” said the envoy.
France has contributed to the ‘Better Work Bangladesh’ programme, set up by the International Labour Organization together with the International Finance Corporation.
For French people, the 14th of July, or ‘Bastille Day’, is a commemoration of the 14 July 1789 storming of the ‘Bastille’ fortress-prison, which led to the end of privileges and absolute monarchy in France, and of the 14 July 1790 “Fête de la Fédération” consecration of the unity of the French nation, which was later to adopt ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’, as the motto of the French Republic.