After Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s assurance to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina that Stockholm would continue to import apparels from Bangladesh, it is now turn of the Netherlands, to follow suit.
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The Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag during her telephonic interaction with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen underlined that buyers from her country would not cancel or suspend any orders.
She gave this assurance to AK Abdul Momen when the Bangladesh Foreign Minister raised the issue of large-scale order cancellations by European buyers, amounting to a staggering US $ 3.18 billion, and how the same has impacted Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector and millions of people who are dependent on the industry for their livelihood, directly and indirectly.
Earlier, the Swedish Prime Minister called Sheikh Hasina to pledge his country’s support towards order continuance.
“We will continue importing RMG products from Bangladesh,” assured Stefan Lofven in his around 15-minute-long telephonic conversation with Sheikh Hasina, in reply to which his Bangladesh counterpart said that Bangladesh is hopeful of meeting the buyers’ orders including that from Sweden despite the current situation in the country due to COVID-19 outbreak.
