The government has decided to go for all out efforts to get Bangladesh’s share from the recession package agreed at a G20 meeting last month, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan today said.
“Bangladesh will have to get its part. We must fight for that,” Faurk Khan told a national conference of Chartered Accountants at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.
The theme of this year’s conference was “Global Meltdown and the Accountants”.
Earlier last month, G20 members at a meeting in London agreed to create a fund worth $1.1 trillion to tackle the global financial crisis. Developing and poor countries will be given assistance from the fund.
Faruk Khan said the developed countries have created the financial crisis, but the developing and poor countries are suffering for them.
“Why should we suffer for them?” asked the minister.
He said: “We must fight for our peg. We will discuss with our neighbours on how we can proceed regionally for the assistance.”
Replying to a query, the commerce minister said he sought $10 billion at a meeting with a World Bank vice-president last month.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman presented a keynote paper on “Bangladesh Economy: Enduring the Global Economic Crisis and the Role of Accountants”.
President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh Nasir Uddin Ahmed chaired the discussion. Sheikh A Hafiz, president of South Asian Federation of Accountants, also spoke.
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