Security Assessment: Japanese team due in Dhaka

Japan will soon send a delegation to Bangladesh to see the security situation here following the July 1 terror attack at a Gulshan café that left 17 foreigners, including seven Japanese, killed.

Kiyoshi Odawara, parliamentary vice-minister for foreign affairs of Japan, told this to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam during a meeting in Bangkok on Monday on the sidelines of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit.

The state minister apprised Kiyoshi of stringent security measures taken by Bangladesh to ensure safety of its tested friends such as the Japanese people as well as other foreign nationals, a Bangladeshi foreign ministry release said yesterday.

The Japanese vice-minister assured that Japan would continue to remain a strong development partner of Bangladesh.

Shahriar said the government was fully prepared to receive the Japanese delegation and appraise it of the security situation.

Earlier, the state minister had a bilateral meeting with his Russian counterpart Ig Murglov.