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Bangladesh’s SEACO initiative gets Malaysian support
DHAKA, April 22, 2019 (BSS) – Malaysia today gave its spontaneous support
for Bangladesh’s South and South East Asian Cooperation (SEACO) initiative,
taken with an objective of advancing regional economic integration.
The support came when State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam
MP met with the Foreign Minister of Malaysia Dato Saifuddin Abdullah and WIEF
Chairman and former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Musa Hitam in Kuala
Lumpur today, a foreign ministry press release said here.
The state minister is leading a four-member delegation to Kuala Lumpur to
garner Malaysian support for SEACO initiative that includes five OIC
countries in the region- Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and
Maldives.
The Forum in the emergence is going to function in the model of World
Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) exclusively with the agenda of economic
cooperation among the members countries and their neighborhoods.
Bangladesh has taken the initiative and is ready to host SEACO’s launching
conference in Dhaka towards the end of June 2019 with expected participation
of the Foreign Ministers of the five countries along with the public and
private stakeholders.
The State Minister in his meeting with the Malaysian Foreign Minister
reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral relations, export of manpower from
Bangladesh and their well being, bilateral trade and investment.
Malaysian Foreign Minister said that Bangladesh would remain an important
source of workers for Malaysia and the Malaysian government was smoothening
the recruitment and work of these workers.
The Rohingya issue also figured prominently in the discussion where they
agreed enhanced role of the ASEAN in the repatriation of the forcibly
displaced Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh.
The delegation is going to meet Malaysian business community and trade and
investment authorities and chambers tomorrow.
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