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Earlier, Alexey Likhachev, the director general of ROSATOM, the State Atomic
Energy Corporation of Russia, paid a courtesy call on the prime minister at
the same place, the press secretary said.
He apprised the premier of the progress of the construction of Rooppur
Nuclear Power Plant.
Likhachev said that if any problem arises in the plant in future it would be
solved with the cooperation of the Bangladesh government.
He thanked the Bangladesh government and the Bangladesh embassy in Moscow
for extending excellent cooperation to his company in constructing the
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
In this connection, Sheikh Hasina put emphasis on imparting training to
local technicians by ROSATOM, terming it very much essential for them.
“Training is very much important for the local technicians as they have no
prior experience in this regard,” she said.
The prime minister recalled with gratitude the contributions of the then
Soviet Russia to the Liberation War of Bangladesh as well as building the
war-ravaged country after independence.
“Russia always extended its support to Bangladesh in international forums,”
she said.
The ROSATOM director general extended his warm congratulations to the prime
minister on the eve of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman, PM’s Principal
Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, Science and Technology Affairs Secretary Anwar
Hossain, Bangladesh Ambassador to Russia Kamrul Ahsan and Russian Ambassador
in Dhaka Alexander I. Ignatov were present on the occasion.
Later, French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy paid a courtesy call on the
prime minister.
Henri Levy handed over a letter of French President Emmanuel Macron to Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina, the press secretary said.
“It’s a letter from the heart and we want to build a real strategic
partnership with Bangladesh,” he said.
Henri Levy, who participated in Bangladesh’s liberation war, told the
premier: “I’ve talked to our president Emmanuel Macron and he is impressed
with your patriotism.”
The French intellectual said he has come to Bangladesh to be part of the
birth centenary celebration of Bangabandhu.
Henri Levy, who was a member of the International Brigade, recalled that he
moved with the Indian army in Bangladesh during the liberation war.
The French intellectual also said he is keen to make a documentary on
Bangladesh.
She suggested collecting information about the martyrs of the liberation war
as much as possible for realising the recognition of genocide in 1971.
PM’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus and Trustee of Liberation War
Museum Mafidul Haque were present.
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