Mentioning that they accept any advice if it is better, Abul Momen said that we need to consider this before implementing any advice regarding increasing the wages of readymade garment workers to Tk 25,000. The requirement is whether the owners will be able to run a profit making factory.
He also asked a journalist to ask the US Embassy whether it had taken any initiative to seek political consensus by sending letters to the three major political parties. “Ask them (America) why they did this,” he said. They can give better answers.”
Claiming that Awami League has created a democratic system in the country, he said the AL wants to maintain it.
Speaking about the recent letter from Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, requesting the government to allow BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for better medical care, the External Affairs Minister said, “Ask her whether Their country sends a prisoner, a criminal and a convicted criminal to another country?