Felani murder isolated incident, FM tells JS
Daily Star 8/2/11
Staff Correspondent
The Foreign minister on Monday termed the death of Felani, who was brutally killed by Indian Boarder Security Force, as an isolated incident.
`The incident of Felani killing was a stray incident which did not put any impact on the friendly relations between the two neighboring countries,' said the state minister for forest and environment ministry Hasan Mahmud, while speaking on behalf of Foreign minister Dipu Moni.
The state minister was replying to a question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque.
He also said that although the killing of Felani was an isolated incident, it was heartrending and flag meetings were held between the border security forces of the two countries to discuss the issue.
`We held joint meeting with the Indian authorities and they assured that such incident would not take place in future,' said Hasan Mahmud.
Replying to another question from ruling party lawmaker Rafiqul Islam, the Foreign minister said that the government had taken a move for ensuring better treatment of Bangladeshi people at the foreign embassies in Dhaka while applying for visa.
The AL lawmaker drew attention of the minister to the situation in front of the embassies where there was no waiting room for the visa applicants and they had to wait on the road even amidst adverse weather.
On behalf of the foreign minister, Hasan Mahmud said that the government already held meetings with the authorities of Indian High Commission and the situation has improved there.
He said that the ministry also held discussion with the US embassy and some other embassies in this regard.
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