প্রকাশ: 30/03/2022
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh didn't
vote against any country, but it stood for humanity in the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA), clearing her country's stance regarding the issue.
"When there was vote against a country (Russia) we
didn't go for it, but when, the issue of human rights appeared in the second
proposal of UNGA, Bangladesh voted in favour of it," she said.
The premier said this in the Jatiya Sangsad here while
replying to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Md. Mujibul
Haque of Kishoreganj-3 regarding the vote against Russia in UNGA's second
proposal.
She said the Ukrainian people are facing sufferings, becoming
refugees and children are also sufferings due to the war.
"As the issue of human rights was involved, Bangladesh
stood for it . . . It is very clear and none should have confusion on it,"
she added.
Sheikh Hasina said when the first proposal was tabled in the
UNGA, Bangladesh found that there was no issue of human rights, no initiative
of stopping the war and no other issues rather only vote against a country
which is Russia.
"To see it, I decided not to vote," she said.
The prime minister, also the leader of the house, said the
war didn't begin automatically; rather there might be someone who is provoking
and forced to begin the war.
She questioned why a single country would be condemned?
In this context, she said, "We abstained from voting."
The prime minister mentioned that Russia is a friendly
country of Bangladesh and it stood beside us when the 7th fleet was sent
towards Pakistan during the War of Liberation in 1971.
"Russia stood by us in our bad time and we are surely
beside the country, but if they (Russia) do unjustified anything we don't
accept this," she said.
She continued that all have to see who is provoking and
behind this war.
She went on saying that, "So, on that day we made a
decision we wouldn't cast vote."
Sheikh Hasina, however, said there is a group of people in
the country who can't eat in the normal process rather they choose to eat in
different ways through twisting.
"Whatever you say they don't like because their income
or consultancy will be stopped if they don't talk or defame Bangladesh
abroad," she said.
She added that they actually don't want that Bangladesh
moves forward.
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