Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday said Bangladesh is maintaining diplomatic relations with different foreign countries through its 81 foreign embassies.
“Bangladesh government is maintaining diplomatic relations with different foreign countries through 81 foreign embassies”, he said while responding to a star-marked query raised by treasury bench lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury at the question-answer session at the Jatiya Sangsad in the capital city of Dhaka.
Primarily, the foreign missions of Bangladesh have started its programme through rented houses but later instructions have given to the foreign ministry to construct their own buildings and purchase embassy buildings along with the land for setting up 32 foreign missions in three phases between the period of 2016 and 2024.
At present, seventeen embassies in fourteen countries have their own buildings which includes six buildings in five Asian countries, seven buildings in seven European countries, one in Africa, three own missions North America, Hasan told the session with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Apart from this, Bangladesh foreign Missions have their own land in Nepal,
Indonesia, Myanmar, Australia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt. In 2023-24, constructions of chancery complex project are now underway in Pakistan, Bhutan, Brunei, Australia, Germany and Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
