Don't harm country's image
Describing Bangladesh as a role model for development, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the Bangladeshi expatriates living in the UK not to do anything that might tarnish the country's image.
"Bangladesh's progress in all sectors is just like magic to many foreign leaders, but it's not magic to us. It's our sincerity to serve people. So you shouldn't do anything that goes against the nation's image," she said.
The prime minister, now in London on her way to Sweden on a three-day official visit, was addressing the Bangladesh community at Stroke Park.
She said once Bangladesh was known as a land of beggars, natural disasters. "We have overcome that situation."
Bangladesh will become a middle-income country by 2021, and a developed one by 2041, she said.
Referring to recent landslides in Chittagong and a fire in London, the prime minister expressed her deep sorrow at the loss of lives in the incidents.
Turning to cricket, she congratulated Bangladesh national team for going into the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy.
She also thanked the Bangladesh community in the UK for their support to secure the victory of three Bangladesh origin British women in the recent British parliamentary snap polls.
Earlier, newly elected Labour Party members in House of Commons Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Rushanara Ali made a courtesy call on Sheikh Hasina at her hotel suite.
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