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Turkish FM due to open its new chancery building here
DHAKA, Oct 28, 2020 (BSS) – Turkish Foreign minister Mevlut Cavusog
will visit here soon to inaugurate the new chancery building of his
country’s mission in the capital.
“The new chancery building of Turkish mission here has been ready
(constructed) completed and the Turkish foreign minister will be here
anytime to inaugurate it,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said
here today.
Bangladesh also built new chancery complex for its mission in Turkey
which was virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from
Dhaka while Bangladesh foreign minister along with his Turkish
counterpart were present physically at the ceremony in Ankara on
September 14 last.
Referring to his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
in Ankara, Momen retreated his expectation that Erdogan would visit
Dhaka in person next year either to attend finally of Birth centenary
celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
or to join the D-8 summit here, if the pandemic situation improves.
The foreign minister made the remarks to reporters after receiving a
special gift of medical equipment sent by the Turkish President
through its Ambassador in Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan.
Earlier, Turkey had sent medical supplies for four times to
Bangladesh for helloing Dhaka combating COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Momen said Turkey wants to raise bilateral trade volume with
Bangladesh more than two billion US dollars from the current bellow
one billion US dollar annually.
“Turkish President is committed to enhancing ties with Bangladesh
and told me (in Ankara) that our (bilateral) trade should exceed US$ 2
billion,” he said.
Dr Momen also said the Turkish president had showed his firm
commitment to increase ties between Bangladesh and Turkey more and
more in the days to come.
On September 16, Bangladesh foreign minister called on Turkish
president in Ankara and discussed various issues of mutual interest,
including D-8 summit, Rohingya crisis and trade cooperation.
Erdogan had assured Dhaka that Ankara would be beside Bangladesh in
all fronts, including bilateral and multilateral, to resolve the
ongoing Rohingya crisis.
He also gave some specific proposals to increase trade cooperation
between Bangladesh and Turkey through easing duties on export-import
of different products including textile and medicine.
Dhaka is set to host the D-8 summit, that was supposed to be held in
May this year but delayed due to the COVID-19, early next year depends
on the pandemic situation.
Bangladesh will take over the next Chair of the D-8 from current
chair Turkey through the Dhaka D-8 summit.
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