Bangladesh votes for humanity, not against any country in UNGA: PM
PBC News: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said Bangladesh didn’t vote against any country, but it stood for humanity in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), clearing her country’s stance
regarding the issue.
“When there was vote against a country (Russia) we didn’t go for it, but when, the issue of human rights appeared in the second proposal of UNGA, Bangladesh voted in favour of it,” she said.
The premier said this in the Jatiya Sangsad here while replying to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Md. Mujibul Haque of Kishoreganj-3 regarding the vote against Russia in UNGA’s second proposal, BSS reports.
She said the Ukrainian people are facing sufferings, becoming refugees and children are also sufferings due to the war.
“As the issue of human rights was involved, Bangladesh stood for it . . . It is very clear and none should have confusion on it,” she added.
Sheikh Hasina said when the first proposal was tabled in the UNGA, Bangladesh found that there was no issue of human rights, no initiative of stopping the war and no other issues rather only vote against a country which is Russia.
“To see it, I decided not to vote,” she said.
The prime minister, also the leader of the house, said the war didn’t begin automatically; rather there might be someone who is provoking and forced to begin the war.
She questioned why a single country would be condemned?
