Hasan urges foreign envoys to abide by Vienna Convention

City Desk :
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said the joint statement given by foreign diplomats recently is a clear violation of the code of conduct as per the Vienna Convention.

“I would like to urge the friendly countries to follow the Vienna Convention,” he said while replying to a query of reporters over a joint statement of 13 foreign envoys on the attack on Hero Alam, an independent candidate in Dhaka-17 constituency polls, at the meeting room of the ministry at Secretariat.

Earlier, the minister uncovered a book named ‘Sangbadikder Smritibhashye Bangabandhu’ (Bangabandhu in the memory of journalists) published by Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB), reports BSS.
Dr Hasan said, “The ambassadors in other countries, including India and Pakistan, don’t make such statements when violence takes place. Then why such kind of statement is being made in our country? In fact, some of our political parties and some from civil society provoked them. So, the persons who provoked the diplomats are responsible in this regard.”
But, he said, the foreign ambassadors should follow the code of conduct of the Vienna Convention.

Replying to another query over a statement of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the information minister said they want to carry out violence and the party has already started creating chaos. And it has been made clear in the statement of Mirza Fakhrul Islam, he added.

He said the government would not sit idle if they carry out violence. The government would take tough actions if anyone carries out violence and creates an unstable situation, he continued.