Says Momen
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the foreigners’ comments about our country’s internal issues are unwarranted and tantamount to interference in our home affairs.
“Our media gives them undue importance which they [foreigners] enjoy. This gives them a feeling that they are the kings of this country and that’s why they make comments about everything,” he said while talking to reporters after attending a function at Shilpakala Academy in Sylhet.
For all latest news, follow The My News’s Google News channel. He said he never saw the United Nations and other diplomats issuing any statement when people get killed in other countries.
“No country made any remark despite the death of around 40 people centring the Panchayet election in India’s West Bengal but they My News Bangladesht screaming about any petty incident here in Bangladesh,” he said, adding that the remarks of the foreigners are tantamount to interference into Bangladesh’s internal affairs which is not supported by the Geneva Convention.
“We hope that those activist diplomats do not interfere in our internal affairs in future,” the foreign minister said.
“Our police never obstruct any demonstration… When BNP damages public and private properties, it becomes the police’s responsibility to protect those [assets]. It’s the duty of the government. Have you seen how police torture in England? And Amnesty International now speaks! You have seen how police kill by strangling in America. Our police are very tolerant. One or two cases could be different. But they follow the rules,” Momen said
He asked the country’s newsmen not to care too much about foreigners and instead to find out what police did in their countries.
“Have you boycotted, protested or asked about their police’s role in strangling to death? You did not do it. It is time to show your responsibility,” the foreign minister told journalists.
