DHAKA, Sept 14, 2019 (BSS) – Awami League presidium member and agriculture
minister Dr Abdur Razzaque today said Bangladesh is committed to ensure
biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the
Convention on Biological Diversity.
“Bangladesh has already adapted and enacted the ‘Biosafety Rules of
Bangladesh, 2012’ and ‘Biosafety Guideline of Bangladesh, 2008’…We are
committed and alert to ensure bio-safety,” said a press release quoting
Razzaque as saying.
He made the remarks while inaugurating the ‘7th Annual South Asia
Biosafety Conference’ in a city hotel.
He said the research regarding the modern biotechnology must be continued
for the welfare of the human being and other living organisms, added the
release.
Dr Vibha Ahuja, chief general manager of Biotech Consortium India ltd,
Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, secretary of environment and forest ministry,
and Md Nasiruzzaman, secretary of Agricultural Ministry, among others, spoke
on the occasion.