Diplomatic Circles

‘We need to talk’: Bangladesh seeks ministerial meeting with Canada to discuss the removal of a convicted killer

Bangladeshi High Commissioner Khalilur Rahman says Canada is protecting a convicted killer, while not protecting a diplomat posted to Ottawa.

High Commissioner Khalilur Rahman says Justice Minister David Lametti, left, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, right, should be meeting with their Bangladeshi counterparts about the Nur Chowdhury extradition case.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 10, 2022

Bangladesh's envoy in Canada is calling for Ottawa to engage in high-level ministerial meetings with Dhaka to discuss sending back a man convicted of killing the country's founding president. Bangladesh High Commissioner Khalilur Rahman said Canada has been delaying discussing the ...

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