Bangladesh, UAE stress early implementation of CEPA

Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have stressed importance of early materialisation of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the two countries to boost trade, investment and economic cooperation.

Acting Foreign Minister Humaiun Kobir met with Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, State Minister for International Cooperation of the UAE on November 2 on the sidelines of the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings taking place in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.

They discussed a wide range of bilateral and multilateral issues to advancing relations between Bangladesh and UAE.

The two sides in particular discussed facilitating employment of Bangladeshi skilled and semi-skilled human resources in the UAE labour market and safeguarding the existing expatriate Bangladeshi nationals living in UAE, UAE's invest in Port facilities in Bangladesh and reciprocal support in multilateral fora, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.

The UAE side particularly expressed interest to support Bangladesh in the Rohingya crisis, including addressing the root causes. -UNB