The audience reportedly applauded Kerry’s remarks on Monday.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived here on Monday on a day’s visit that is deemed “extraordinary” and “significant”.
“One of Kerry’s core intentions in Dhaka will simply be to emphasize the importance that the United States accords to security problems in Bangladesh, and Washington’s strong desire to help the government there address them”, he added. Briefing the press after the meetings, Mahmood Ali said a host of issues including security matters were discussed.
Before starting for New Delhi, he visited Edward Kennedy Centre at Dhanmondi and delivered lectures to youngsters.
After his brief stop in Bangladesh, Kerry traveled to India for the seventh meeting of the U.S. -India strategic dialogue, which seeks to improve security and well as economic and development ties between the nations. “If you give us information, it’ll be helpful for us to hunt down the terrorists”, she said.
“These are issues to be disclosed gradually”, he said.
“No country is immune from terrorism”, Kerry told journalists in Dhaka. The meeting was held from 4:35 pm to 5:10 pm. Attacks over the past two years have killed atheist bloggers, foreign aid workers and religious minorities. Kerry’s blunt statement followed the July 1 attack on a cafe in an upscale district of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in which 22 people were killed – mostly non-Muslims and foreigners, including one American.
The Dhaka attack, which the assailants broadcast on the Internet and was later claimed by Islamic State, spooked investors who have helped make Bangladesh the world’s second largest garment manufacturer behind China. They include BNP leader Khaleda Zia, whose party boycotted parliamentary elections in 2014.
While talking about the ongoing anti-ISIS drive in the Middle East, he said the outfit has been cornered in the region due to the operation and many terrorists are now returning home in the face of the attack.
“What a tragedy to have such brilliant and courageous leadership taken away from the people of Bangladesh in such a moment of violence and cowardice”.
Kerry’s remarks were made at the Edward M. Kennedy Center, which is a joint project between the Bangladeshi Liberation War Museum and the U.S. Embassy based in Dhaka.
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Kerry also commented on a number of smaller attacks that occurred over years past, ones that he said were designed to “push people apart” and “create internal strife”.
