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Against the backdrop of continued hostility with India due to the fact that of the continued beingness of erstwhile PM Sheikh Hasina connected Indian soil, the Foreign Affairs Advisor of the interim authorities of Bangladesh Touhid Hossain said connected Saturday (November 22, 2025) that Bangladesh volition “insist” connected its close to prosecute its nationalist interest.
Mr. Hossain said Bangladesh is alert that the fragile planetary situation absorption mechanics has not helped successful resolving enduring conflicts similar successful Myanmar, and said Bangladesh volition enactment towards harnessing the afloat imaginable of the Bay of Bengal region.
“Bangladesh insists connected its sovereignty and its close to prosecute its nationalist interest. In practice, this means that our concern indispensable present tangible benefits, not symbolic only. We volition prosecute with large and mediate powers, but our decisions volition beryllium guided by nationalist interest, sovereign equality, and communal respect,” said Mr. Hossain.
Mr. Hossain did not speech astir the death condemnation that the International Crimes Tribunal gave days earlier to the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, but referred to the authorities of Ms. Hasina, who is presently successful India, arsenic an “oppressive authorities that restricted civilian space”.
The Foreign Affairs Advisor to the interim authorities described the Bay of Bengal portion arsenic a “strategic fulcrum” and that “Bangladesh intends to beryllium a assured histrion and not a passive corridor only.”
Mr. Hossain made circumstantial mentions of the circumstances successful neighbouring Myanmar, the struggle successful the Gaza Strip and the civilian warfare successful Sudan, Africa, wherever the planetary strategy of situation absorption did not bring an extremity to quality suffering. “My state knows the outgo of fragility. We person opened the doors to hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar, we person contributed to U.N. bid missions, and we cognize however rapidly humanitarian crises tin escalate,” said Mr. Hossain.
Referring to the determination situation, Mr. Hossain called for responsive institutions that volition prolong connectivity and commerce, but said economical partnerships should not beryllium “predatory” successful nature. “We indispensable harness the boundless imaginable of the Bay of Bengal and crook it into a corridor of maturation of bid and prosperity,” said Mr. Hossain.
