The interim government of Bangladesh has decided to recall its ambassadors from five countries including India.
Mohammad Yunus government has also recalled its diplomats from the United Nations this week.
People familiar with the matter, on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday that Foreign Service officials are angry with the order issued by the Administrative Division of the Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh.
He says that many of the recalled ambassadors, including the High Commissioner to India, were not politically appointed.
Apart from High Commissioner to India Mustafizur Rahman, others recalled include the UN permanent representative in New York and ambassadors to Australia, Belgium and Portugal, the people said. Some of the recalled diplomats, including Rehman, were scheduled to retire in the coming months.
The development comes at a time when India-Bangladesh relations are at a low ebb following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina administration in early August due to protests led by student organisations.
The caretaker government in Dhaka has made sustained efforts to arrange a meeting between Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last month.
However, the Indian side was unhappy with Yunus’s comments criticizing India and raising the possibility of Hasina’s extradition.
Talking about Bangladesh’s Ambassador to India Mustafizur Rahman, he is an experienced diplomat, who was appointed High Commissioner to India in July 2022 and before that served as Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland and Singapore. Had done.
He played an important role in taking forward development cooperation and building better relations between the two sides.
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