Int'l community should help Bangladesh as it became victim of climate change: CA
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed has said that it was the responsibility of the international community to provide assistance to Bangladesh for long-term rehabilitation as the country was a victim of climate change.
"I have tried to remind the representatives of Bangladesh's development partners and ambassadors and high commissioners of friendly countries at a meeting Monday that providing assistance to Bangladesh is their responsibility as the country has become a victim of climate change… it faced flood on the one hand and cyclone on the other in the same year," the Chief Adviser said while receiving donations for the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.
The Chief Adviser Monday held a meeting with the country's development partners and foreign envoys when he placed a rough estimate of US$1.0 billion requirement for rehabilitation of some sectors severely affected by November 15 cyclone 'Sidr'.
He said that he had requested the development partners and envoys of friendly countries for assistance for long-term rehabilitation in the cyclone-hit coastal belt.
Fakhruddin Ahmed said the government wanted that people of coastal region should be given security of life so that they did not fall victim of any such cyclone in the future. Infrastructure should also be improved across the coastal region.
He expressed the hope that the country's development partners and friendly nations would come forward to help Bangladesh in the long-term rehabilitation.
The Chief Adviser also said the government's on-going relief operation would continue as long as it was needed.
He said the government had already started reconstruction of houses, rehabilitation of agriculture, fisheries and livestock in the cyclone-affected districts.
"I have tried to remind the representatives of Bangladesh's development partners and ambassadors and high commissioners of friendly countries at a meeting Monday that providing assistance to Bangladesh is their responsibility as the country has become a victim of climate change… it faced flood on the one hand and cyclone on the other in the same year," the Chief Adviser said while receiving donations for the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.
The Chief Adviser Monday held a meeting with the country's development partners and foreign envoys when he placed a rough estimate of US$1.0 billion requirement for rehabilitation of some sectors severely affected by November 15 cyclone 'Sidr'.
He said that he had requested the development partners and envoys of friendly countries for assistance for long-term rehabilitation in the cyclone-hit coastal belt.
Fakhruddin Ahmed said the government wanted that people of coastal region should be given security of life so that they did not fall victim of any such cyclone in the future. Infrastructure should also be improved across the coastal region.
He expressed the hope that the country's development partners and friendly nations would come forward to help Bangladesh in the long-term rehabilitation.
The Chief Adviser also said the government's on-going relief operation would continue as long as it was needed.
He said the government had already started reconstruction of houses, rehabilitation of agriculture, fisheries and livestock in the cyclone-affected districts.