Staff Reporter
German Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr. Rüdiger Lotz yester-day reaffirmed Germa-ny’s commitment to deeper bilateral coopera-tion, stressing an early Bangladesh-EU free trade agreement, stronger aviation ties and expand-ed trade, investment and people-to-people ex-changes.
He made the remarks during a courtesy call on State Minister for For-eign Affairs Humaiun Kobir at the foreign min-istry here this afternoon.
Ambassador Lotz con-gratulated the state min-ister on his recent as-sumption of office and expressed confidence that Bangladesh-Germany relations would continue to strengthen.
He placed particular em-phasis on the early con-clusion of a Bangladesh-European Union Free Trade Agreement and greater cooperation in the aviation sector.
The German envoy also called for expanding trade and investment as well as people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
Lotz highlighted Bangla-desh’s post-election sta-bility and noted grow-ing interest among Ger-man companies in the country’s investment-friendly environment.
During the meeting, Kobir appreciated Ger-many’s longstanding en-gagement with Bangladesh and its contribution to the coun-try’s development.
He expressed interest in expanding bilateral co-operation in trade and investment, educa-tion, skills development, renewable energy, cli-mate action, culture, mi-gration and mobility.
The two sides discussed a broad range of bilateral, regional and glob-al issues of mutual inter-est.
