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Outgoing interim authorities main Muhammad Yunus connected Monday (February 16, 2026) said his 18-month regularisation restored 3 halfway pillars of Bangladesh’s outer engagement - "sovereignty, nationalist interests, and dignity", and it is nary longer a "submissive" nation.
In his farewell code to the nation, Mr. Yunus said that astatine the extremity of his regime’s rule, “Today's Bangladesh is confident, active, and liable successful protecting its autarkic interests".
“Bangladesh is nary longer a state with a submissive overseas argumentation oregon babelike connected the instructions and proposal of different countries,” helium said successful the televised code a time up of quitting power.
He emphasised that his 18-month tenure had rebuilt the 3 "fundamental foundations" of the country’s overseas engagement: "sovereignty, nationalist interests, and dignity".
Mr. Yunus’ interim authorities began successful August 2024 and is acceptable to reason its unscheduled word with the swearing-in of a caller government led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026), which won a two-thirds bulk successful wide elections 4 days ago.
BNP, led by its president Tarique Rahman, bagged a whopping 209 retired of 297 seats successful the important 13th Parliamentary elections held connected February 12.
"I telephone upon everyone, careless of party, creed, religion, caste and gender, to proceed the conflict to physique a just, humane, and antiauthoritarian Bangladesh. With this appeal, I bid farewell with large optimism," Mr. Yunus said.
Mr. Yunus, who ran the state arsenic the outgoing regime’s main adviser, efficaciously the premier minister, said Bangladesh’s unfastened oversea was its large “strategic asset”, creating immense economical opportunities successful the portion for the South Asian nation.
He emphasised the immense maturation imaginable of broader determination practice encompassing Nepal, Bhutan, and “northeastern India”.
"Our unfastened oversea is not simply a geographical boundary; it is simply a gateway to the planetary economy," helium said, adding that connectivity was cardinal to the country's adjacent signifier of development.
Mr. Yunus said that his medication exhausted its efforts to “ensure antiauthoritarian rights and values” and formulated immoderate 130 caller laws, amended different laws, and issued 600 enforcement orders, astir 84 per cent of which person been implemented.
He said that planetary larboard absorption companies, against which workers waged monolithic protests, and which critics said were against Bangladeshi interests, would rise the ratio of the facilities to planetary standards.
"We person travel a agelong mode successful signing agreements with starring planetary larboard absorption companies to bring our ports' ratio up to planetary standards. If we cannot summation efficiency, we volition lag down successful economical achievements," helium said.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Yunus met with elder bureaucrats and participated successful a photograph league with each those serving astatine his office.
Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff Gen Waker-Uz-Zaman also paid a farewell sojourn to him. Mr. Yunus thanked the Army main for the practice of the equipped forces during the wide election.
On Sunday (February 15, 2026), Mr. Yunus held the past gathering of his advisory assembly oregon cabinet. Under Mr. Yunus's tenure, Dhaka's relations with New Delhi witnessed a important downturn.
India has been expressing concerns implicit attacks connected minorities, particularly Hindus, successful Bangladesh.
