Govt to set up int'l centre on adaptation
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said Bangladesh adopted a climate change strategic plan and seeks to establish an International Climate Adaptation Centre in the country.
Under the plan, she said strategies are formulated to manage disaster through agricultural diversity, ensuring food security, dredging major rivers to keep them navigable, creating green belts and developing coastal forests.
The foreign minister said this while discussing with a nine-member delegation of the British Parliament's International Development Committee (IDC) headed by its Chairman Malcolm Bruce, MP when they called on her at the ministry yesterday.
During the meeting, they discussed different issues like democracy, development and human rights, trade and economic partnership, and climate change.
The foreign minister thanked the British government, parliamentarians and its people for their steadfast support for Bangladesh's advancement toward return to democracy including elections, support for voter identity card project and election observation.
Dipu Moni also expressed satisfaction over the two countries' cooperation on major international issues including UN peacekeeping, achieving millennium development goals and climate change.
She told the IDC delegation that poverty alleviation is one of the priorities of the present government besides food and energy security, infrastructural development, industrialisation and employment generation. She thanked the Department for International Development to increase assistance from the current year's £ 135 million.
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