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Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Christian Brix Møller has expressed condolences for the victims of the July-August mass uprising and proceeded to offer Danish support to the survivors, particularly rehabilitation of victims of torture as well as support to several key areas of the interim government´s reform agenda.
This includes facilitating institutional reform in close collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission, universities, think tanks and law ministry.
The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Sunday.
The Ambassador congratulated the Chief Adviser on taking on the leadership of the interim government of Bangladesh during this pivotal period for the country.
He also handed over the original congratulatory and best-wishes letter from the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen to the Chief Adviser.
Denmark is committed to enable good governance and strengthen capacity of state and non-state actors, and has also decided in view of recent development in Bangladesh, to immediately allocate 1 million USD in support to the Centre for Policy Dialogue’s (CPD) work on strengthening good economic governance in Bangladesh and escaping the middle income trap.
In addition, the Danish Ambassador reiterated Denmark´s interest in enhancing trade and investment with Bangladesh, and building stronger economic diplomacy links between the two nations.
In this connection, he mentioned Denmark’s continued interest in high quality investments in Bangladesh, notably large specialised green investment projects such as the Laldia Container Terminal through a 400+ million USD investment by Danish shipping and ports giant Maersk/APM Terminals; 1.3 billion USD investment in offshore wind energy project off the coast of the Bay of Bengal by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners/Copenhagen Offshore Partners, and app. 300 million USD financing for the Saidabad Water Treatment Plant in Dhaka.
The Ambassador voiced continued Danish commitment to the country’s stake in the production of fertilizer on a public-private partnership basis in Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company Limited (KAFCO) while also exploring new collaboration opportunities.
This includes business to business technology transfer in pharmaceuticals, where Denmark is world-leading, in order to nurture new internationally competitive industries in Bangladesh.
The Ambassador highlighted a growing and strengthening relationship between Denmark and Bangladesh, and shared commitments to work towards a greener transition in shipping, energy, water, labour market, and food/agriculture, as well as advancing the climate agenda.
Furthermore, the Ambassador pointed to the potential for even closer dialogue between Denmark and Bangladesh on labour sector reform during Denmark's membership of the ILO Governing Body for the period of 2024-2027 and on furthering dialogue on international solutions to the Rohingya crisis in light of Denmark’s membership of the UN Security Council 2025-2026.
Messenger/UNB/Disha
