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Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Iwama Kiminori has said he would prefer to refrain from commenting on Bangladesh’s upcoming election, terming it “an internal affair”.
“I would refrain from making any comments on this. It is an internal affair of Bangladesh,” Iwama Kiminori said when a journalist wanted to know Japan’s position on the subject after the bilateral relationship was elevated to “strategic partnership” during PM Hasina’s recent official visit to Japan.
Kiminori was briefing media at the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday on the recent meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, reports UNB.
He made the remarks when during the briefing, a journalist referred to the previous Japanese ambassador’s comment in November last year.
Sheikh Hasina made an official visit to Japan and had a summit meeting on April 26 at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
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