DHAKA, Jan 19, 2021 (BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today
urged his Bahrain counterpart to take back Bangladeshi expatriates
those have been stuck here due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Momen made the urge at a conversation over telephone with Bahrain
foreign minister Dr Abdul Latif Bin Rashid, a foreign ministry press
release said here.
Thanking the Bahrain government for regularizing visas of 30,000
Bangladeshi expatriates under a general amnesty, the foreign minister
urged his counterpart to extend deadline of the general amnesty.
Dr Momen also thanked the Bahrain government for its decision of
distributing free COVID-19 vaccines to all including the Bangladeshi
expatriates.
The two ministers also agreed to hold the second Foreign Office
Consultation (FCO) between the two countries in Dhaka soon.