The United States has donated 20 vessels to Bangladesh to help increase capacity to monitor, patrol, and respond to threats within the country’s coastal waters and Economic Exclusive Zone.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh will decide its policy towards Afghanistan independently after observing the situation and their attitude but no terrorists will be patronised.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today hoped that relations between the European Union (EU) and Bangladesh will continue to strengthen further.

The government has appointed Khondker M Talha, currently serving as the director general of East Asia and Pacific Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to France.

Bangladesh and UK will hold a two-day strategic dialogue beginning today. It will cover political, diplomatic, trade and development relationship between the two countries in the post-Brexit era.

Bangladesh has decided to join a dialogue, initiated by the United Nations and European Union, with the Taliban in the wake of a humanitarian crisis after it seized control of Afghanistan.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen called for renewed commitment and partnership of all stakeholders in rebuilding post-pandemic economies.

Dhaka has requested London to remove Bangladesh from its red-listed Covid-19 countries, which will allow stranded British Bangladeshis to go back to the UK.

Bangladesh’s Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today met Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi, during which they discussed bilateral cooperation “progressing steadily across all domains and media and public perceptions in that regard.”

The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal, left Dhaka today on invitation of US Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael M Gilday, to attend the 24th International Seapower Symposium in the United States.

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has stressed on a coordinated international response on Afghanistan aimed at safeguarding regional stability, as he held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, OSP, ndu, psc has visited the Indian Army’s 50 Independent Parachute Brigade, Wargaming Development Centre, Defence Image Processing and Analysis Centre and Indian National Defence College (NDC), in the last two days of his India tour.

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has stressed on a coordinated international response on Afghanistan aimed at safeguarding regional stability, as he held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud inaugurated the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman media centre at the Press Club of India in New Delhi today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh will decide its policy towards Afghanistan independently, noting that India or Pakistan’s conduct is not important to Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called on developed countries - responsible for the highest rates of global carbon emissions - to pay compensation to poorer nations for the loss and damage caused by climate change.

The Press Club of India will set up a media centre honouring Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his birth centenary.

Bangladesh has proposed the UK to expand their bilateral climate relations especially in transferring green technology, promoting green investment, and supporting climate mitigation projects such as building embankments to protect people from sea-level rise and river erosion.

Two mobile oxygen plants (MOP), capable of generating 960 litres of oxygen each per minute, arrived in Chattogram on an Indian Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel, INS Savitri, today.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen is going to UK tomorrow on a three-day official visit to chalk-up a post-Brexit, post-Covid new strategic partnership vision, marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh-UK diplomatic relations.