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Brexit creates real opportunity in Bangladesh-UK ties: British envoy
DHAKA, Jan 30, 2020 (BSS) – The UK hopes that Brexit may create more opportunities for Bangladesh in enhancing trade and development ties with more free and sovereign England in longer term as the Britain is set to leave European Union (EU) on Friday finally.
“There’s an increasing focus in the UK on the opportunities,” British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson told reporters at his residence here at a press briefing ahead of Brexit.
After brexit, he said as a more trade sovereign country the UK will explore how they can best trade with large emerging economy like Bangladesh.
The envoy said his country wants to see Brexit as an “opportunity” to do more as the UK seeks to deepen its relationship with the countries beyond the EU.
The UK will immediately enter into an 11-month transition period after Brexit while the island nation will work on to make new trade agreement with the EU.
On Friday, the final day of Brexit, the envoy said the British PM will hold a special cabinet in the north of England to discuss how best to spread prosperity and opportunity across all concern on the UK as the country looks ahead the next decade.
Quoting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the High Commissioner said, “Next Friday marks an important moment in the history of our United Kingdom. No matter how you voted in 2016, it’s the time to look ahead with confidence to global, trail-blazing country we’ll become over the next decade and heal past divisions.”
On February 1, the envoy said the new great ‘Ready to Trade’ campaign will launch in 17 cities across 13 countries outside the EU, as the UK seeks to deepen our relationship with further global partners.
The British High Commissioner said the historic moment will be marked through the commemorative 50p coin which will come into circulation on the day the UK leaves the EU.
The public will see 3 million of these coins enter their banks, shops and restaurants from January 31 with a further 7 million entering circulation later this year, he said.
The British Prime Minister will be one of the first to receive the new Brexit coin which reads ‘Peace prosperity and friendship with all nations’.
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