Sino-Bangla friendship to be maintained
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the existing multidimensional good friendship between Bangladesh and China would be maintained in the future.
“Bangladesh and China have multifarious and strategic relations,” she said this while she was talking to newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Zhang Xianyi at her Gulshan office in the evening.
After the meeting, BNP chairperson's foreign affairs adviser Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told reporters that Khaleda appreciated China's role in various international forums “in favour of trade and economic development of the Third World countries, including Bangladesh”.
In this regard, the former PM mentioned China's role for the Third World nations' trade and economy in the recent meeting of G77 plus China held in London.
Referring to many Bangladeshi students studying in China with Chinese government scholarship, she said it would contribute to enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
The Chinese Ambassador said there remained cooperation between the two countries “in the fields of economy and politics”.
He said the bilateral agreement signed between the two countries would help advance the ties between the two peoples.
“China hopes that friendly relations between the two countries would further strengthen in future,” the envoy was quoted as saying.
He said Bangladesh and China have deep and special relations, which started during the time of late president Ziaur Rahman.
He further said Khaleda Zia, when she was prime minister, had made significant contribution for improving relations between the two countries which the government and people of China remember with respect.
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