The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government has decided to make significant changes in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, five months after taking charge.
Along with the appointment of a new Foreign Secretary, the government is set to appoint new faces as Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to New York, High Commissioner to Delhi and London and Permanent Representative to Geneva.
In these, appointments in New York and London are being made on political basis.
A government policymaker confirmed the planned changes at the Foreign Ministry to Prothom Alo on Tuesday.
After the BNP government took power in February, it directed four ambassadors appointed during the interim government to return home.
Additionally, three career diplomats have been appointed as ambassadors to three countries in the last two months.
Several officials of the Ministry of External Affairs, requesting anonymity, informed this correspondent that Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative in New York Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury is being appointed as the Foreign Secretary.
The current Foreign Secretary, Asad Alam Siam, is being appointed as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Delhi.