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"Minister as well as Awami League leader Latif Siddique is nobody to me, but the person Latif Siddique is my brother. He has no right to talk about me as a brother."
ABDUL KADER SIDDIQUE
Veteran freedom fighter and the brother of Latif
While addressing a press conference at Jatiya Press Club, he commented that what Latif had said was not only his own remark, rather it was the remark of the incumbent government as well.

"I have been a friend of Israel long before I became a Tory. I have stood by Israel through thick and thin. But I realise now that Israel has been slowly drifting away from world international public opinion."
RICHARD OTTAWAY
Chairman of the UK's Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Said that he no longer felt he could vote to deny the Palestinians the right of recognition because of recent Israeli actions as the British Parliament decided to recognise the Palestinian State.