Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that foreign technical assistance would be taken for the judicial probe committee, formed by the government aims at ensuring fair and standard inquiry of quota reform movement.
鈥榃e will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial inquiry committee to make it appropriate, qualitative and highly standard,鈥� she said while German ambassador Achim Troster聽 called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.
PM鈥檚 press secretary Md Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed the reporters after the meeting.
The government has formed the judicial inquiry committee with High Court Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman to probe all the deaths centring the movement.
Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh, in the meantime, had a communication with the United Nations regarding taking assistance for this inquiry.
鈥楾he UN expressed interest while Bangladesh also showed willingness,鈥� said Nayeemul Islam Khan.
鈥楪ermany has a longstanding relation with Bangladesh and it will be continued,鈥� said ambassador Achim Troster.
Regarding the religious fanaticism, the envoy said that Germany had no sympathy for their accomplices, adding that they were firmly hopeful over the recent speech of the prime minister that there would be an independent inquiry.
鈥業t will identify the culprits and they will be exposed to the trial,鈥� he said.
He said that the slow visa procedural system of the embassy in Bangladesh was not a dearth of goodwill rather it was being held due to the resource constrains.
He expressed regret for this unwilling delay in visa procedures.
Sheikh Hasina said that the relation of Bangladesh with Germany was traditional and current bondage was satisfactory.
The German ambassador also extended his condolences on the mourning day on Tuesday which was declared by the government to remember those who lost their lives, including law enforcement personnel, during the movement.
Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin, PM鈥檚 principal secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah and senior secretary of foreign ministry Masund Bin Momen were present in the meeting.聽
Meanwhile, prime minister visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the afternoon to see the injured of the recent nationwide mayhem.
She inquired about the condition of those undergoing treatment and gave necessary instructions to the hospital authorities to provide the victims with proper treatment.
During her visit, director of the hospital Md Shafiur Rahman briefed Sheikh Hasina on the treatment measures taken for the injured.
In the last couple of days, Sheikh Hasina visited Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Central Police Hospital, Dhaka Medical College Hospital and National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation to see other victims of the violence.
She assured all victims of proper treatment and wished them a speedy recovery.
She also visited the ransacked metro rail station at Mirpur-10, Bangladesh Television Bhaban in Rampura, and the violence-ravaged Setu Bhaban, department of disaster management building, and the toll plaza of the elevated expressway at Mohakhali.
