Dutch minister assures help in dev sector
Visiting Dutch Development Cooperation Minister Bert Koenders yesterday assured Bangladesh of continued Dutch support in development programmes, especially in the field of water management, reclamation of lands, health and education.
The assurance came when the Dutch minister called on Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at her office yesterday.
During the meeting, they discussed the entire range of bilateral relations and other issues like investment, water management and climate change, human rights, Rohingya refugees and the trial of the war criminals, sources said.
Dipu Moni expressed her profound gratitude to the Dutch government for its significant role in the development of Bangladesh, especially in the fields of food aid, commodity aid and loan.
She also lauded the “grand support” in the investment sector and technical assistance at the early stages of our independence.
The foreign minister said the government is committed to establishing human rights in the true sense of the term and the government would show zero tolerance towards extrajudicial killings.
Referring to the subject of climate change, she said steps needs to be taken to rehabilitate the environmental refugees.
Dipu Moni said as per the mandate of the people, the government took steps to try the war criminals.
Saying that transparency and international standard in the process of trial would be maintained, she sought Dutch support to this end.
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