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Bangladesh: ‘US sanctions on Rab not punishment, rather a warning’, US envoy
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DHAKA, 17 January 2022, (TON): Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque said following a meeting with US Ambassador Earl Miller “US sanctions on Rab and seven of its current and former officials were not meant to punish Bangladesh but to warn against the violation of human rights.”
He told reporters after the meeting at the Secretariat "I had a meeting with him (Miller). He said the US sanctions on the law enforcement agency were not aimed at punishing Bangladesh, but to warn us.”
The minister said “the US is attaching high importance on human rights and they perceive that the law enforcers in Bangladesh have violated human rights in some cases and that those need corrections.”
He added “they hope that Bangladesh would carry out the corrections.”
In response to Miller's observations, the minister said it was regretful that the US has put Bangladesh in the same category as North Korea and Myanmar.
Razzaque said "I said the human rights situation in Bangladesh is good. No human rights violations have happened here.”
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