Bangladesh, Pakistan at loggerheads over Dhaka Declaration of OIC CFM
DHAKA, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a Press Release which Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued here on Monday: “Attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh has been drawn to a press release issued by Pakistan on the recently concluded 45th OIC Council of Foreign Ministers held in Dhaka.
In view of this, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Bangladesh is constrained to make the following statement:
An original draft of the Dhaka Declaration was received from the General Secretariat of the OIC. Subsequently, some additional paragraphs were suggested by some member states, OIC related organisations and the host country. The suggestions were included in the draft Declaration prior to its adoption by the Council. “However, there was no amendment made to the original draft of para 18 concerning which Pakistan has made observations.”