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The BNP did not meet with US Under Secretary of State Stephen Beagan. This top representative of the Trump administration was in Dhaka from Wednesday afternoon to Friday morning. Various discussions and criticisms have started within the party about this.
When asked, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, head of the diplomatic wing and a member of the BNP’s standing committee, told Jugantar that the BNP was not supposed to have a meeting with the US Deputy Foreign Minister. If there is a program, they will, this is the rule. We have nothing to do here.
A key BNP leader said that US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigan, during his visit to Dhaka in the context of China’s growing presence in South Asian countries, sought the side of Bangladesh in his Indo-Strategy. Pacific (APS). The BNP regards the United States as a friend as a force for the restoration of democracy in the country. The team’s failure by not meeting him there. The meeting would have sought at least the cooperation of the United States on the general situation of the country, especially the lack of democracy in the country, the lack of good government and the unconditional release of the head of the party Khaleda Zia.
However, reliable sources from the BNP’s diplomatic wing said that since news broke that US Under-Secretary of State Stephen Beagan was visiting Bangladesh, the BNP had been in regular contact with concerned officials at the country’s embassy in Dhaka. A BNP leader first contacted the US embassy in Dhaka to meet with the deputy foreign minister. At one point, the leader proposed her own name and the name of one of the important leaders of the party. But the embassy in Dhaka did not respond positively to the meeting of BNP leaders with the US undersecretary of state. Then another top BNP leader tried again to meet. He was also unsuccessful.
A member of the BNP’s diplomatic wing said that if the name of Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had been suggested, he could have met with US Under Secretary of State Stephen Bigan. The US embassy said so. But the names of the two people who were sent to the embassy by the BNP for the meeting did not enter the protocol of the US undersecretary of state. So the embassy did not show interest in the meeting between BNP and the United States Undersecretary of State, Stephen Beagan.
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