To bring in more foreign investments into Bangladesh, which has recently emerged as one of the preferred investment destinations worldwide, the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly invited Bulgarian investors to make the most of several vital areas, while urging them to invest in Bangladesh.
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According to the Prime Minister’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim, Hasina told Bulgarian investors that they could invest in Bangladesh’s various sectors, including the power sector while interacting with a 15-member Bulgaria Chamber of Commerce and Industries’ delegation that called on her at a hotel in the Bulgarian capital Sophia, recently.
The Bangladesh Premier also reportedly apprised the Bulgarian team of the various initiatives of the Bangladesh Government initiated in the interest of the foreign investors, besides highlighting about upcoming investor-friendly projects like SEZs and IT parks.
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Accompanied by Bangladesh Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali, during the meeting, Hasina reportedly maintained that Bulgarian investors could exploit the vast resource-procurement potential in the region more so after the maritime issues with India and Myanmar has been resolved by Bangladesh. She also spoke on Bangladesh’s improved relationship with its neighbours, which according to her would open up new and wider markets for the investors.
It may be mentioned here that participating in the 4th Bangladesh Business Summit, Asia, recently, Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith dwelt extensively on the country’s investment potentials. “Never before, Bangladesh was so well prepared to absorb talent, technology and investment from outside. Never before the country was so investment hungry as it is today,” Muhith said in his keynote speech at the event, adding, “I can assure you that the environment for doing business will be even better in the coming days. We are open to you, to your ideas, innovations and enterprises.”
