http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/10/27/82691.html
High profile business team from Doha due next year
DOHA (Qatar), Oct 26 (Agencies): Qatar will send a high profile business delegation to Bangladesh in the first quarter of next year to identify possible investment sectors and put forward a set of recommendations to the government in this regard.
Qatar is keen to increase its investment in the country’s various key economic sectors.
The assurance came when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on her Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr Al Thani at his official residence here last night.
Qatar has also assured the Prime Minister of providing support towards the construction of Padma bridge and recruiting more manpower from Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Prime Minister after attending the three-day European Development Days-2009 events in the Swedish capital of Stockholm arrived here yesterday evening on a two-day official visit on an invitation from Amir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
During the meeting, the Qatari Prime Minister told Sheikh Hasina that Qatar would provide Bangladesh with dredgers to implement the massive capital dredging and maintenance project to restore navigability in the country’s rivers.
The Qatari Prime Minister requested Sheikh Hasina to send project proposals to his office for the proposed river dredging, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad told newsmen after the meeting.
He said Qatar would help Bangladesh in tackling the challenges of climate change.
Sheikh Hasina welcomed the move and also invited the Qatari Prime Minister to visit Bangladesh. Accepting the invitation, the Qatar Prime Minister said he would visit Bangladesh at a time convenient.
During the meeting, the two leaders discussed a wide range of bilateral issues including expansion of trade and business between the two Muslim countries, climate change and the condition of Bangladesh expatriates working in Qatar.
When Sheikh Hasina raised the issue of severe consequences faced by the developing countries from the climate change, the Qatari Prime Minister said his government would help Dhaka in effectively tackling the challenges of global warming.
The Bangladesh Prime Minister also listed her government’s plans and programmes to face the challenges of climate change that include large-scale river dredging and maintenance programme, creating green belt along the sea beach, ensuring food security and construction of shelter centres.
