Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday said that Bangladesh is unaware of the location of the Russian ship which was under sanction.
The minister told reporters after a courtesy meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen.
He said: “We did not allow the ship which was under sanction to our port. We don't know where it went after that.”
On the other hand, the Chinese ambassador said he saw the media reports and hoped that any sort of sanction would not affect ordinary people and cooperation with any country.
He also said that those were “unilateral sanctions”, and not by the United Nations.
Bangladesh has conveyed to the Russian side that they can send any ship except those 69 sanctioned ones carrying equipment for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
Sanctioned Russian ship Sparta III (Ursa Major) was scheduled to dock at Mongla port in Bangladesh at the end of December last year and unload cargo destined for the Rooppur power plant in Pabna.
But the authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the port after officials got a letter from the US Embassy in Dhaka, saying that the ship was on a list of Russian vessels sanctioned by the US.
