State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahariar Alam yesterday said the government does not like questions about the legitimacy of the January 5 election or when the next election would be held.
He was speaking at a press briefing on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Japan visit at the ministry. Hasina went to Tokyo on a four-day visit on May 25 and came back yesterday morning.
“The vibrant bilateral relations that Bangladesh has with Japan, Russia, China, and even with the US, it is clearly understandable that international community has full confidence in the government,” he said.
“We don’t feel any problem at working level,” Shahriar said.
A country like Japan has made strong commitments during a bilateral visit and it proved that the confidence in the current government is much more than it has been at any time in the past, he added.
Japan has announced up to about $6 billion yen loan commitment for different priority projects in Bangladesh during the visit by the prime minister to Tokyo.
Japan committed the loan for the next four or five years and the priority projects are Ganges Barrage, multi-modal tunnel under river Jamuna, dedicated railway bridge over river Jamuna, multi-modal Dhaka Eastern Bypass, and ecological restoration of four rivers around Dhaka.