Bangladesh picks new envoys to US, India
The government has decided to appoint Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran as the country's next envoy to the US, said a foreign ministry statement yesterday.
It has also decided to appoint Md Mustafizur Rahman, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the UN in Geneva and also the ambassador to Switzerland, as the high commissioner to India.
Imran will replace M Shahidul Islam, who was made Bangladesh ambassador to the US in September 2020. This means that Shahidul is being replaced more than a year before completion of his three-year tenure.
The changes in important diplomatic positions come months after the US imposed sanctions against Rapid Action Battalion and seven of its current and former officials. This has strained, to some extent, the US-Bangladesh bilateral relations.
Imran is a career foreign service officer from the 1986 batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Foreign Affairs cadre. He has served extensively in various capacities both at the foreign ministry and Bangladesh missions abroad such as Jeddah, Bonn, Berlin and Ottawa.
Mustafizur is a career foreign service officer from the 11th batch of BCS Foreign Affairs cadre. He has served in Bangladesh missions in Paris, New York, Geneva, Kolkata, and Singapore.
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