Bangladesh proud of Iran’s nuclear achievements: official

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Bangladesh proud of Iran’s nuclear achievements: official



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Libreville, April 20, IRNA – Bangladesh is proud of IR Iran’s nuclear achievements and capabilities, Bangladesh Minister of Information and Cultural Affairs, Abul Kalam Azad said here on Friday.


He made the remarks in a meeting with Iran’s Culture Minister Sayed Mohammad Hosseini on the sideline of conference of information ministers from the Islamic world in Gabon.

The official called for the use of Islamic Republic of Iran’s experiences in all fields including the fields of education, research and cultural affairs.

Iran’s culture minister for his part asked for the Muslim countries’ united action against the ongoing Islamophobia which aims to show a bad face of Islam.

“Iran is ready to transfer its experience in fields of art, press and other cultural issue to the Muslim countries including Bangladesh.”

Hosseini added that Iran’s successes in fields of peaceful nuclear energy, science and technology including Nanotechnology and Airspace is beneficial to all Muslim countries.

“The West is not happy with Iran’s scientific progresses because they are afraid that Tehran transfers its scientific achievements to other Muslim countries.”

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced its plan to establish a satellite channel and promote investment in the media to fight Islamophobia and enhance exchange of information among the member states.

“We have a number of important proposals to strengthen Islamic media activities. They include the launch of an OIC satellite channel,” OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a conference of information ministers from the Islamic world.

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondinba opened the two-day conference titled “Session of Information Technologies in the Service of Peace and Development.” Ihsanoglu also announced a three-year media plan focusing on the African continent.

Twelve draft resolutions have been presented to the ministers for discussion and potential adoption. They include the restructuring of the International Islamic News Agency (IINA) and the Islamic Broadcasting Union (IBU), formation of an OIC Journalists Forum and opening of OIC media offices in different parts of the world.

The OIC, which is the second largest international organization after the UN, has set out a strategy to combat what it calls “rising intolerance against Islam and Muslims in the West.”

One resolution says negative news in some Western media has resulted in negative stereotyping and racial discrimination and victimization directed against Muslims. Stressing that the Islamic faith is based on the core values of peace, tolerance, moderation and peaceful coexistence with all other religions and faiths, the OIC labeled the emergence of Islamophobia as a “contemporary form of racism and xenophobia motivated by unfounded fear, mistrust and hatred of Muslims and Islam.” It also added that Islamophobia manifested itself “through intolerance, discrimination, hostility and adverse public discourse.”

The Gabon conference has short, medium and long-term goals for putting in place an action plan to fight Islamophobia. It asks member states to create funding for media campaigns to counter intolerance against Islam and discourage using expressions such as “Islamic” fascists or “Islamic” extremists for criminal terrorists. For the medium term, the resolution asks member states to implement media literacy programs in schools to combat misperceptions, prejudices and hate speech. It aims to utilize success stories in the Muslim world “as a means to show that the interests of Muslims are similar to the rest of the world when it comes to democracy, good governance and human rights.”

The OIC plans to create awards for excellence in unbiased journalism, reporting, photography and publishing. It sets up scholarship programs for Westerners to study in the Muslim world and encourage reporter-exchange programs between the Muslim world and the West in order to disseminate this information throughout media outlets.

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[scholseys]

This Abul Kalam Azad should keep his mouth shut.

 

[boltu]

Its funny how BAL spinning things around and intentionally or unintentionally on the edge of pissing Russia & USA off at the same time.

 

[TopCat]

I dont like this guy to start with. He is an known idiot.

 

[scholseys]

i like awami league's foreign policy "na ghorka na ghatka"

 

[Banglar Lathial]

Some members are reading too much into an ordinary comment. Even Iranian and Saudi diplomats or leaders shake hands and smile as part of diplomatic protocol. BAL is well and truly an agent of Hindutva radicals, so if they can think of infusing some backward, Shantiniketoni archaic ideas into gullible Bangladeshi people's minds, they might as well praise Iran as part of diplomatic protocol.

 

[Mattrixx]

I saw many of u guys r very much blind to Islam.But that is limited to pakistan,saudi & jamatis.

But Muslim world is much more than that, we have to keep relation with them too.What do u guys think that we will be sympathetic to those muslims where there is no problems with western.It will just show our lacking & weaker backbone. Sometimes we have to show some dignity.Slavery to the western is not always the option.

India is keeping good relation with iran. & being a muslim country we wont cooperate with iran how is that. We r a big muslim country so we have to see other muslim's goods too.

& opposing AL is now a tradition.Acting like this no govt of BD can do works independently.

 

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Dhaka clarifies Azad's comments on Iran's nuclear proliferation

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)

DHAKA, April 22 (BSS) - The foreign office today said Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad was "misquoted" as Iranian media quoted him as saying that Bangladesh was 'proud' of Tehran's nuclear proliferation.

"IRNA has misquoted the Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad as saying 'Bangladesh is proud of Iran's nuclear achievements and capabilities'," said a foreign ministry statement here.

The statement came as the Iranian official news agency IRNA ran a report on its website quoting Azad as telling his Iranian counterpart Syed Mohammed Hosseini about Bangladesh's position towards Iran's nuclear proliferation programme on the sidelines of a conference of Muslim nations.

The IRNA report was also carried by a leading Bangladeshi English newspaper saying Dhaka felt proud for Iran's 'nuclear achievements and capabilities" at the meeting with the Iranian minister in Gabon of Africa on Friday.

Azad is now on a week-long visit to the western Africa state to attend the 9th session of the Islamic Conference of the Information Ministers (ICIM) and he was expected to return home on April 23.

The foreign office statement said the IRNA news is a 'deviation' from the fact as the information minister has only reiterated Bangladesh's stand on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

It said Azad and Hosseini discussed matters relating to mutual interests of the two brotherly countries.

During the meeting, Azad also emphasized cooperation among the OIC member countries under the purview of Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) for the development of science and technology.