Business leaders, BNP push for three-year deferment of LDC transition

A delegation of business leaders on Sunday afternoon held a meeting with senior BNP leaders, including party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussion on industry’s situation in the country and defer from the Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation. BGMEA President Mahmud Hasan Khan led the 11-member delegation at the meeting held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office. After the meeting, BNP Standing Committee member and former minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the business leaders have suggested that the government should formally write to the United Nations (UN) to request the LDC graduation deferral. “They also proposed the UN be asked to send representatives to assess Bangladesh’s genuine readiness for the transition. Basically, we discussed that it is necessary...