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Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) industry's reforms have pleased Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynders. He told Bangladesh foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali in Brussels that European buyers also have responsibility to ensure factory safety and labour rights. "We shall continue to work towards holding them accountable," he assured his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali on Monday at a meeting in Brussels. The foreign ministry on Tuesday in a media release said that the two ministers also expressed their satisfaction at the "ever expanding" trade relations between the two countries. AH Mahmood Ali left Dhaka on Sunday to attend a conference on genocide in Brussels. He also made a presentation on Bangladesh during his stay. The RMG industry, which is Bangladesh's main export, have gone through a series of reforms under pressure from the international community after the multi-storey ‘Rana Plaza’ collapse that killed more than 1100 people, mostly RMG workers. European Union set out a reform package for RMG industry after the nine-storey garment factory collapse at Savar, calling it “sustainable compact”, according to bdnews24.com.