Foreign technical assistance will be requested for the judicial inquiry committee: PM Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday that international technical support will be provided to the government’s judicial investigative committee, which is tasked with conducting a fair and standard investigation into the quota reform movement.
“We will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial inquiry committee to make it appropriate, qualitative and highly standard,” she said.
The prime minister said as German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster visited her at her official house in Ganabhaban.
Md. Nayeemul Islam Khan, the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary, informed the media following the meeting.
The government has constituted the Judicial Inquiry Committee comprising High Court justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman to investigate all of the murders centered on the quota reform campaign in the country.
In the meeting, the prime minister said that Bangladesh, in the meantime, has a communication with the United Nations (UN) regarding taking assistance for this inquiry.
The PM’s press secretary said, “The UN expressed interest while Bangladesh also showed willingness.”
Besides, German Ambassador Achim Troster said that his country will stay beside Bangladesh.
Germany has a longstanding relation with Bangladesh and it will be continued, he added.
Regarding religious fanaticism, the envoy said Germany has no sympathy for their accomplices, adding that they are firmly hopeful over the recent speech of the prime minister that there will be an independent inquiry.
“It will identify the culprits and they will be exposed to the trial,” he said.
Achim Troster said that the slow visa procedural system of the embassy in Bangladesh is not a dearth of goodwill rather it is being held due to resource constraints.
He expressed regret for this unwilling delay in visa procedures.
The prime minister expressed satisfaction over the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Germany.
Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin, PM’s principal secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah and senior secretary of foreign ministry Masund Bin Momen were present.
