Dhaka   Thursday 21 November 2024

27 EU envoys to meet Yunus soon

27 EU envoys to meet Yunus soon

27 EU envoys to meet Yunus soon

Interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said that 27 ambassadors of all the countries of European Union—20 of them stationed in New Delhi and the rest seven in Dhaka—would meet him in the next few days.

‘Twenty ambassadors from 20 European Union countries based in Delhi along with seven ambassadors from seven countries in Dhaka are coming to Dhaka in the next few days to meet me,’ Yunus said in his televised speech address to the nation marking 100 days of the government.

Three days after the fall of the regime of Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country to India on August 5 amid an unprecedented student-people uprising, Nobel laureate Yunus took office as the chief adviser of the interim government on August 8.

‘Never before did 27 ambassadors from the EU come together to discuss with the government,’ he said.

The reason for this gathering was to express the EU support and to develop high-level cooperation in the economic field, he said, adding that ambassadors from many countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Finland, Singapore, Libya, have already met him.

‘They have assured me of increasing trade and investment along with various bilateral cooperation,’ he added.

Diplomatic sources said that the move was initiated so that all these diplomats could meet Professor Yunus at a time since the EU diplomats concurrently responsible for Bangladesh were willing to call on him.