Date: September 12, 2009
A major diplomatic event has just been completed. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has just returned from her official visit to New Delhi visit (September 8-10). A Joint Statement (JS) issued after the talks indicated that these were held in a cordial and friendly atmosphere where both sides reiterated their desire to move the relations ahead.
Date: September 5, 2009
As expected, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost the Japanese elections and as expected very badly. The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 308 seats in a parliament's lower house of 480 seats and sent the LDP into the Opposition, ending its stranglehold on power since 1956, which they had briefly lost for eleventh months in 1993. The LDP won 119 seats against the 302 it had in the last parliament.
Date: September 2, 2009
On August 17, veteran BJP stalwart Jaswant Singh launched his book, entitled Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence, in which he praised Jinnah as a leader who did not want to divide India. He described Jinnah as "secular" and "a great man." The book sent shockwaves through the senior leadership of BJP, who were in Shimla at that time for chintan baitak (introspection meeting) to find the reasons for the election debacle.
Date: August 15, 2009
FORMER Water Resources Minister and currently Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Mr. Abdur Razzak, upon his return home from leading a parliamentary delegation to India, said that his talks with the Indians have “convinced” him that Tipaimukh will not harm Bangladesh.
Date: July 24, 2009
THE two-day long 15th NAM Summit ended successfully at the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm-el-Sheikh on July 16th with a 100-page Declaration. It gave new hope that a movement and an organization that was the product of the Cold War and was expected to die a natural death with the end of that war could revive once more.
Date: July 21, 2009
The recent news in the media on differences of view between the British High Commissioner Stephen Evans and the BNP General Secretary Delwar Hossain on the alleged role of the former's predecessor in bringing emergency rule in Bangladesh is to say the least, interesting.
Date: July 18, 2009
JAPANESE Prime Minister Taro Aso's tenuous tenure seems set to end as he was forced to declare elections for the Lower House following his party's disastrous performance at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly elections, winning only 38 seats against the Opposition Democratic Party of Japan's 54 seats.
Date: July 18, 2009
THE last few weeks have witnessed emotion, anger, accusations and counter charges. The opposition, busy as usual with negative expressions outside the Jatiyo Sangshad, has tried its best to influence public opinion against India's decision to construct the Tipaimukh Dam Civil society, hydrologists, economists and water 'experts' have also been free with opinions about the possible post-Tipaimukh catacysmic scenario and made the situation more complex.
Date: July 17, 2009
THE Centre for Foreign Affairs Studies (CFAS), a foreign policy think-tank in Dhaka, hosted a farewell lunch for the departing German Ambassador H.E. Frank Meyke on July 14 at a local hotel. The chairperson of the CFAS, Ashfaqur Rahman, who was once Bangladesh ambassador to Germany, and German Ambassador Meyke highlighted the salient features of bilateral relations between the two countries.
Date: July 11, 2009
JOHN Bolton, President Bush's Ambassador to UN in New York, did not particularly endear himself to the Muslim world for his views and actions while in office. In fact, he enraged the entire Muslim world by his neo-con views and defended President Bush's “you are with us or against us” view with passion and conviction till the Senate denied him congressional approval in 2006 for a new term.
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