US policy towards Bangladesh has not been very comfortable during the last six or seven years, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said.
He said the US had shown an adverse attitude towards two countries – Bangladesh and Russia – but that Bangladesh did not suffer financial losses because of it.
Muhith was speaking to reporters yesterday at the Finance Ministry auditorium following trips to New York to attend the UN General Assembly and Lima, Peru to attend the board meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
“The last seven years of US policy prove my words,” he said, but declined to make a direct statement about specific US policies.
The finance minister said it was a matter of US foreign policy and he did not want to comment further.
On the recent murders of two foreign nationals, Muhith said: “Do you know how many Bangalis are killed daily in New York? Cities in the United States hold the record for murders committed.”
“Every country has law and order problems. People get killed everywhere in the world,” he said, adding: “The law and order situation in Bangladesh is wonderful.”
