Bangladesh always believes in peaceful coexistence with all neighbours, but it is also ever ready to protect its sovereignty from any aggressive attack, said Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“Our foreign policy drives with the Father of the Nation’s introduced key policy ‘friendship to all, malice to none’. Although Bangladesh believes in peaceful coexistence with all the neighbouring countries, we’re ever ready for and strongly committed to protecting the country’s sovereignty from any aggressive attack,” she said on Saturday.
Sheikh Hasinasaid this while delivering her pre-recorded speech through Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar on the occasion of Armed Forces Day. Other private television channels and radios also broadcast her around 13-minute speech.
In the last one decade, Hasina mentioned, the government has developed every section of the Armed Forces with modern weapons and equipment.
The Prime Minister briefly described various development programmes that have taken place in the Armed Forces.
She hoped that the members of the Armed Forces would be able to contribute more to the country’s defence and nation-building activities imbued with the strength of honesty, patriotism and professional skills.
The Prime Minister praised the members of the Armed Forces for their highest devotion and sacrifice while discharging their duties in any crisis of the country, including the Covid-19 pandemic as the frontline fighter.
To face the Covid-19 pandemic, she said, a good number of members of the Armed Forces had been infected and some of them died.
The Prime Minister praised the Armed Forces for brightening the country’s image abroad through discharging their duties with skills and sincerity in UN peacekeeping missions.
“We’ve to move forward with our economic activities maintaining health rules. Inshallah, we’ll establish hunger- poverty- and illiteracy-free secular Golden Bengal as dreamt by the Father of the Nation,” she said.❐
