The United States wants to see further development of Bangladesh’s RMG sector with united efforts from all stakeholders including buyers and retailers, reports UNB.
US Congressman Sander Levin expressed this when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office on Tuesday morning.
Congressman Levin said the buyers and the retailers have their due role towards the development of the RMG sector, and there is a need for united efforts from all to this end, briefed the PM’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad after the meeting.
Levin said the suspension of the GSP facilities for Bangladesh by the USA was not any stand by the US government against Bangladesh.
In response, the Prime Minister hoped that good actions would reinstate the GSP facilities for Bangladesh by the USTR in December this year.
She highlighted various steps taken by her government for the welfare of the country’s people including implementation of large-scale social safety-net programmes.
About the Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar on April 24 that claimed lives of over 1,100 workers, the Prime Minister said soon after the tragic incident, her government had taken prompt steps to ensure smooth rescue operations as well as treatment of the injured people.
She mentioned that Bangladesh enacted the Labour Law 2013 to protect the rights of workers.
Hasina thanked the United States for being a party of the “Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the RMG and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh.”
Ambassador at Large M Ziauddin, Media Adviser to the PM and Awami League President Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, PMO Secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman, PM’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad and US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena were present.
