FM's speech and the press release!
Shahjahan Ahmed, Dhanmondi RA, Dhaka
I am referring to the press release by the foreign ministry explaining the reasons for the FM's outbursts. (FM's India Remarks: DS September 12th). The release said that the FM "expected that the young journalists would understand the issues in their right perspective and look at them dispassionately and objectively." Here is why no one except the foreign ministry would buy this explanation. Our relations with India did not dip to such low level to warrant this outburst. The FM just did not accuse India across a broad range of issues; his speech was also delivered in bad body language. The timing for the outburst was awful with a series of meetings with India scheduled in the next few months ending with the next SAARC Summit. Then, if the FM thought that the Indians would believe that he was giving this speech to help young journalists understand our relations with India better then he must have made a serious mistake. It looks like the FM is playing to a different gallery not interested in improvement of Bangladesh- India relations. Unfortunately, in this country there are many to go along with the FM, going by some of the letters that I have read in this column.
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