Awami League General Secretary and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that Bangladesh is a political friend of India and China is a friend of development.
He said these things in the speech of the chief guest at the opening ceremony of the seven-day Hill Fruit fair organized by the Chattogram Hill Tracts Ministry on Saturday (July 6) at noon.
This fruit fair has been organized at the Sheikh Hasina Chattogram Hill Tract Heritage Conservation and Research Center on Bailey Road in the capital.
Obaidul Quader said, our foreign policy is friendship with everyone, not enmity with anyone. Sheikh Hasina followed this policy of Bangabandhu. India has been our tested friend since ‘71. Indian soldiers then gave blood for us. Their people gave us shelter. We cannot forget the help of those times.
He said, since ‘75 years of hostility with India, what have others achieved in 21 years? We have solved the border problem. Having good relations, we got the sea boundary from India. We resolved the enclave problem peacefully because of the good relationship. We have also done the Ganges water treaty. If the relationship is good, everything can be resolved through discussion. We were never returned empty handed. Never been back, not yet.
Awami League general secretary said, those who talk big, they used to come from Delhi and say that we have forgotten about the Ganges treaty. When we get benefits for our development, why don't we take it? Now someone's body is itching, someone's heart is burning.