DHAKA - A team from the United Nations met officials at BangladeshÂ’s foreign affairs and law ministries on Sunday to assess efforts by the army-backed interim government to tackle terrorism, especially by Islamist militants.
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The team will talk with officials, intelligence agencies and law enforcers and visit Chittagong port and an Islamic religious school (madrassa) during a week-long stay in Bangladesh. ‘The major goal of our visit is to make an assessment of the state of the current implementation by Bangladesh of Security Council resolution 1373, which was adopted after 9/11,’ the team’s leader Sergey Karev told reporters after the meeting.
‘We will monitor not only legislation, but how Bangladesh cooperates with neighbours and rest of the world,’ said Karev, a director for assessment and technical assistance to the UN counter-terrorism committee. The team will also assess what technical assistance is needed, he said. |