Foreign Minister Abdul Momen
urged Bahrain counterpart to take back Bangladeshi expatriates
those have been stuck at home due to corona pandemic.
Momen made the urge at a conversation over telephone with Bahrain foreign minister Dr Abdul Latif Bin Rashid, a foreign ministry press release said on Tuesday.
Thanking the Bahrain government for regularising visas of 30,000
Bangladeshi expatriates under a general amnesty, the foreign minister urged his counterpart to extend deadline of the general amnesty.
Dr Momen also thanked the Bahrain government for its decision of
distributing free COVID-19 vaccines to all including the Bangladeshi
expatriates.
The two ministers also agreed to hold the second Foreign Office
Consultation (FCO) between the two countries in Dhaka soon.
