The Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday sought cooperation from Japan to reopen the two damaged metro rail stations at Mirpur-10 and Kazipara in Dhaka.
She sought the assistance when Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh IWAMA Kiminori paid a courtesy call on the premier at Ganabhaban in the capital.
PM鈥檚 press secretary Md Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed journalists after the meeting.
The Japanese ambassador said they would first assess the damages to the metro rail stations and then decide how they could help Bangladesh reopen the stations.
The Japanese envoy expressed his sympathy over the casualties caused during the massive unrest across the country centring around student protests for quota reforms in government jobs.
During the meeting, the prime minister said attackers damaged the government establishments built for public welfare, security and services.
鈥楾hey attacked those establishments which were useful for the people and those were the targets of the attackers. This is very much heart-breaking for me,鈥� she said.
The premier said a lot of hard work was put into building these establishments in the past 15 years.
The Japanese envoy said his country鈥檚 businesspeople were waiting for the upcoming EPA Negotiation on Public-Private Economic Dialogue to be held in Tokyo in the second half of August.
Before holding the dialogue, he hoped that the law and order situation would become normal.
The envoy said he was hurt after he saw the damaged metro rail stations.
He continued, 鈥楽weat and tears of many people were involved in building the metro rail.鈥�
PM鈥檚 adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman and ambassador at large M Ziauddin, principal secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah and foreign ministry senior secretary Masud Bin Momen, among others, were present at the meeting.
