{"id":1509,"date":"2023-05-31T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:29:50","slug":"visa-policy-to-encourage-right-behaviour-for-free-fair-polls-haas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Visa policy to encourage right behaviour for free, fair polls: Haas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n

US Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Haas today said the new US visa policy applies to \u201ceveryone\u201d and it is to encourage all in Bangladesh to make right \u201cbehaviour\u201d to ensure free and fair election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Idea behind the (new visa) policy is that it applies to everyone, it\u2019s about the behaviours and it\u2019s about the encouraging the right behaviours for \u00a0free and fair elections. So people who support free and fair elections are towards that end have nothing to fear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The envoy was talking to reporters after inaugurating a special photo exhibition along with state minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam tilted Roots of Friendship: \u00a050 Years of US-Bangladesh Relations in the capital.<\/p>\n

Last week, Washington announced its new visa policy for Bangladeshis where it said it would enable the US \u201cto restrict the issuance of visas for any Bangladeshi individual, believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh”.<\/p>\n

When talking to reporters, Haas said, the US wants the same thing what Bangladesh government is committed to hold a free and fair elation.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Bangladesh) Prime Minster (Sheikh Hasina) made her commitment (to hold free, fair polls) clear and (Bangladesh) foreign minister has made the commitment and welcomed international observers to come and watch the elections. So, I don\u2019t see any disagreements at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Haas added, \u201cWe the US want what every Bangladeshi want \u2013 free and fair elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ambassador said the US announced the new visa policy is in support of the Bangladeshi people and the Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna\u2019s \u00a0call for free and fair elections. \u00a0\u201cThis is one of our ways of supporting that, using our policy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While asking what are the challenges in current Bangladesh-US relations, Hass said that he \u201cturned the focus (Bangladesh-US ties) on the positives rather than the challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (today\u2019s) photo exhibition is a great example historically what our partnership was then, but even currently we have a very strong partnership on trade, security relations, people to people ties, healthcare and then of course we are working through, and we are having good conversations on the upcoming elections,\u201d said the ambassador.<\/p>\n

The exhibition displayed 50 historic photographs – an extended celebration of the 50th anniversary of bilateral ties between the United States and Bangladesh – represents six distinct categories.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cEarly Contact\u201d category features the initial seeds of friendship and collaboration between Bangladeshis and Americans\u2014early immigrants, artists, scholars, architects, doctors, and entrepreneurs\u2014prior to Bangladesh\u2019s independence in 1971.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOfficial Visits\u201d category showcases visits and meetings of the U.S. and Bangladeshi heads of state.<\/p>\n

The \u201cAid & Infrastructure\u201d category covers the United States\u2019 support for Bangladesh\u2019s development over the decades while the \u201cTrade & Business\u201d category features the vibrant bilateral trade relationship.<\/p>\n

The \u201cEducation & Science\u201d category shows how Bangladeshi and American scientists and scholars have collaborated for decades on a wide variety of research projects and the \u201cCulture & Diaspora\u201d category portrays how over half a century, both countries have connected through cultural expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staff correspondent : US Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Haas today said the new US visa policy applies to \u201ceveryone\u201d and it is to encourage all in Bangladesh to make right \u201cbehaviour\u201d to ensure free and fair election. \u201cThe Idea behind the (new visa) policy is that it applies to everyone, it\u2019s about the behaviours and it\u2019s about the encouraging the right behaviours for \u00a0free and fair elections. So people who support free and fair elections are towards that end have nothing to fear,\u201d he said. The envoy was talking to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}