NEW DELHI: Bangladesh international coverage adviser Touhid Hossain mentioned after assuming workplace Dhaka will keep a stability in ties with large powers and search good ties with all. Hossain, who served as international secretary from late 2006 to July, 2009, additionally mentioned the speedy precedence for the interim govt that was sworn in on Thursday is to revive regulation and order and the nation.
Hossain is thought to have combined views on India, acknowledging India’s significance for Dhaka on the one hand, but additionally accusing it of not doing sufficient to uphold Bangladesh’s pursuits on the opposite.
Hossain mentioned final 12 months in a lecture that Bangladesh’s pursuits weren’t protected as a lot as India’s previously 15 years, a interval that noticed glorious ties between the govts however not essentially the individuals. This was the rationale, based on him, the connection couldn’t be thought of a “function mannequin’’. India has maintained for years that the connection with Bangladesh is a mannequin for bilateral relations not simply within the area but additionally past.
Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper quoted him as saying final 12 months that, based on historical past, the very best mixture for relations between the 2 international locations is Awami League in govt in Dhaka and Congress in Delhi. Considerably, Hossain is seen as pro-West and has lengthy maintained that Dhaka wants to fix its ties with the western international locations. Simply earlier than the elections this 12 months in Bangladesh, he wrote that whereas ties with India will at all times stay vital, and Dhaka wants to keep up good ties with Russia and China too, “none of those international locations can substitute our relationships with western international locations’’.
In one other column earlier this 12 months, Hossain mentioned that by any consideration, the connection with India is most vital for Bangladesh’s international coverage however added that whereas Bangladesh had delivered virtually every thing India requested for, India had displayed indifference and reluctance in assembly Bangladesh’s “few calls for’’. To again his argument, he has usually cited India’s failure to ship on the Teesta river water sharing.
“Persons are nonetheless being shot alongside the border by BSF guards. The justifications made by the Indian govt to exonerate themselves of those killings, merely infuriates the individuals of Bangladesh additional. India can be depriving Bangladesh of its share of the river Teesta’s water on the excuse of their home politics,’’ he mentioned in a column in January, including there have been different irritants like non-tariff boundaries and India not permitting Bangladesh entry to Nepal via the Siliguri Hall.
Hossain is thought to have combined views on India, acknowledging India’s significance for Dhaka on the one hand, but additionally accusing it of not doing sufficient to uphold Bangladesh’s pursuits on the opposite.
Hossain mentioned final 12 months in a lecture that Bangladesh’s pursuits weren’t protected as a lot as India’s previously 15 years, a interval that noticed glorious ties between the govts however not essentially the individuals. This was the rationale, based on him, the connection couldn’t be thought of a “function mannequin’’. India has maintained for years that the connection with Bangladesh is a mannequin for bilateral relations not simply within the area but additionally past.
Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo newspaper quoted him as saying final 12 months that, based on historical past, the very best mixture for relations between the 2 international locations is Awami League in govt in Dhaka and Congress in Delhi. Considerably, Hossain is seen as pro-West and has lengthy maintained that Dhaka wants to fix its ties with the western international locations. Simply earlier than the elections this 12 months in Bangladesh, he wrote that whereas ties with India will at all times stay vital, and Dhaka wants to keep up good ties with Russia and China too, “none of those international locations can substitute our relationships with western international locations’’.
In one other column earlier this 12 months, Hossain mentioned that by any consideration, the connection with India is most vital for Bangladesh’s international coverage however added that whereas Bangladesh had delivered virtually every thing India requested for, India had displayed indifference and reluctance in assembly Bangladesh’s “few calls for’’. To again his argument, he has usually cited India’s failure to ship on the Teesta river water sharing.
“Persons are nonetheless being shot alongside the border by BSF guards. The justifications made by the Indian govt to exonerate themselves of those killings, merely infuriates the individuals of Bangladesh additional. India can be depriving Bangladesh of its share of the river Teesta’s water on the excuse of their home politics,’’ he mentioned in a column in January, including there have been different irritants like non-tariff boundaries and India not permitting Bangladesh entry to Nepal via the Siliguri Hall.
