According to an IANS report, journalist Nicolas Wadhams, who is accompanying Kerry on his tour to New Delhi, tweeted: “John Kerry stuck in traffic like everyone else on wet New Delhi night”.
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Kerry will fly to neighbouring India later Monday to take part in a regular India-US strategic dialogue on economic cooperation and security issues.
Critics say Hasina’s administration has been trying to exploit the attacks to demonise her domestic opponents and say a government crackdown on opponents has pushed many towards extremism.
U.S. State Secretary John Kerry during his visit to Bangladesh today expressed the USA interest to work closely with intelligence agencies of Bangladesh to fight terrorism.
The Forum during its meeting held in January, 2015 and September, 2015 had submitted comprehensive recommendation covering various issues across the sectors, which the governments on both sides took into account and encouraged more business to business exchanges.
“We, today, agreed on additional steps by which our intelligence and law enforcements will work together in order to try to get ahead of this…”, Kerry told reporters after meetings. Secretary Kerry praised Bangladesh’s impressive development progress and commitment to contributing to solving global challenges through United Nations peacekeeping and action on climate change. On Aug. 27, police said they had killed three suspected militants, including an alleged mastermind of the cafe attack.
Issues of cooperation in combating terrorism and militancy largely dominated the talks, Ali said but declined to elaborate immediately.
But, he spoke pointedly of the transnational threat posed by terrorism.
The US offered Bangladesh counter-terrorism assistance after last month’s deadly cafe attack in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.
“There is evidence that ISIL in Iraq and Syria has contacts with about eight different entities around the world and one of them is in South Asia”, Kerry said after meeting with Hasina.
“We would fight with Bangladesh to combat terrorism. we have enough experts in this regard and we could help Bangladesh by giving these experts”, he quoted Mr. Kerry as telling the Bangladeshi premier at her office.
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“Bangladesh can not truly meet the aspirations of its people and share prosperity if its workers are not safe and their rights are not ensured”, Kerry said, referring to the collapse of a building in 2013 that housed five garment factories and killed more than 1,100 people in the country’s worst industrial disaster, according to the Associated Press.
