Kathmandu: The Bangladesh Ambassador to Nepal, Humayun Kabir has said that the South Asian region is known in the world as a region having “negative distinctions” and that the countries belonging to this part of the world still lack a sense of “togetherness” but instead believe in “otherness”.

The Bangladesh diplomat made these comments at a talk program organized by the Central Department of Political Science, T.U. last week.

“Unfortunately, our region is bogged down in poverty”, said the Ambassador adding that his country had already devised a homegrown tool to fight poverty which being the establishment of Grameen Bank.

Talking on B’desh-Nepal bilateral relations, the Ambassador noted that both the countries had tremendous goodwill for each other.

According to Ambassador Kabir, the two countries were at the moment concentrating their efforts in the direction of increasing the volume of trade; establishment of joint venture investments and building up of infrastructure support inside Bangladesh so that Nepal benefits for her exports to third countries.

Prof. Habibullah, HoD, Political Science Department, greeted the Ambassador.