Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus stated on Wednesday that his nation needs good relations with India and different neighbouring nations, nevertheless it needs to be on the idea of “equity and equality.”
Yunus, who took oath as the pinnacle of the administration after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from the highest put up, stated that many international leaders, together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif, telephoned to congratulate him.
In a televised handle, he stated, “We wish good relations with India and different neighbouring nations, however these relations needs to be on the idea of equity and equality.” The 84-year-old Nobel laureate took oath as the pinnacle of the interim authorities on August eight after Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following widespread protests towards her authorities.
In the course of the handle, Yunus additionally stated Bangladesh has already began high-level bilateral cooperation talks with India to take care of floods. “I’ve additionally taken the initiative to revive SAARC to boost regional cooperation in South Asia,” he stated. SAARC contains Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. “We wish the world to recognise Bangladesh as a revered democracy,” he stated.
Elaborating on the steps taken by the interim authorities in a bid to reform Bangladesh, he stated that six commissions have been fashioned to overtake in six key sectors, together with the electoral system. The opposite sectors are police administration, judiciary, anti-corruption fee, public administration, and the structure. The commissions are anticipated to begin their features on October 1, and they’re prone to full their work throughout the subsequent three months, Yunus stated.
Yunus additionally highlighted that the core intention of the reforms is to make sure equal rights for all. “We now have a number of work forward of us. We wish to transfer ahead collectively towards the identical aim. We wish to create a construction that allows the untapped skills inside us, particularly inside our new era, to be expressed with out obstacles, with the help of the state and society,” he stated.
(With PTI Inputs)
