Speaking after meetings with the country’s top leaders, Kerry said they made “very clear (their) desire to cooperate with us very, very closely”.
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When the prime minister raised the issue of getting money and arms by the IS terrorists, John Kerry said the IS terrorists are getting money through selling the oil from the areas that have been captured by them.
He came up with this observation in the comment book at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka during his visit here yesterday morning to pay his respects to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Hasina sought information from the United States to capture the terrorists.
The top USA diplomat referred to the July 1 cafe attack and said it was an outrage clearly “designed to divide Bangladesh, created to try to cut off this welcoming society from the outside world”.
The state secretary had also said that the U.S. has interests in working closely with intelligence agencies of Bangladesh in order to fight terrorism. “It would help arrest the terrorists and there should be reciprocity or two way traffic in this regard”, she said.
And precisely because of that, people do not have the ability to affix blame to this administration for the policies they have implemented that have caused the degradation of the American economy and the American culture, because Obama’s not attached to any of this.
In reply, Kerry said that the children of rich families play video games full of violence when their parents go out of their house.
The Prime Minister sought duty-and-quota-free access of all Bangladeshi products to the USA market.
Bangladesh’s secular government has continued to enjoy the West’s support despite mounting concerns over its handling of the escalation in militant activity.
“There is no room for militancy and terrorism in the country”, Khan said, according to the state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
However, Kerry also highlighted that democracy provides “the most resilient and reliable platform we have for preventing and responding to violent extremism”, remarks that gain significance in the wake of a crackdown on opponents that has seen thousands of activists behind bars.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks outside the hotel during a break from a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday, March 19.
