Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said that foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka described the vandalism committed by miscreants backed by BNP-Jamaat clique as ‘shameful’ and said they were beside Bangladesh.
‘They [diplomats] said this is shameful [vandalism]... all of them told me that they are with us ... [and] they classified the issue as an internal matter of Bangladesh,’ he told reporters.
The foreign minister briefed the media at the state guest house Padma after accompanying a tour for foreign diplomats to the vandalised spots including metro rail, bridge bhaban and Bangladesh Television in the capital.
Diplomats of 49 foreign missions including 23 ambassadors or high commissioners joined the tour and expressed their shock to see the devastated sites of state-owned establishments.
‘They [diplomats] became horrified by the vandalism and destruction by seeing their own eyes,’ Hasan said.
The foreign minister said that the BNP-Jamaat organised demonstrations in front of Bangladesh missions in different countries with the help of expatriate Pakistani communities there.
He said that the foreign ministry had evidence that Pakistani nationals joined a demonstration in front of the Bangladesh mission in Los Angeles. ‘Numbers of Pakistanis were involved to organise that demonstration,’ he added.
The foreign minister also said that the BNP-Jamaat quarters were engaged in spreading rumours regarding the Bangladesh situation with false and fabricated information in different countries.
Hasan also turned down the news that the UAE decided not to recruit Bangladeshi manpower. ‘This [news] is absolutely bogus ... the UAE ambassador to Bangladesh has informed us that they did not take such kind of decision,’ he said.
