Relations with China will be damaged if Bangladesh joins US-led ‘Quad’: envoy UNB, Dhaka UNB, Dhaka
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming today said Bangladesh should not join the Quad , a US-led initiative, and that Bangladesh s relations with China will substantially be damaged if it joins it.
He termed Quad a military alliance aimed against China s resurgence and its relationship with neighbouring countries .
The ambassador said Quad was a narrow-purposed geopolitical clique, and Bangladesh should not join it, since it will not derive any benefit from it.
US, India, Japan and Australia are part of an informal strategic alliance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad.
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Published: 10 May 2021 02:08 PM BdST
Updated: 10 May 2021 02:34 PM BdST Doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen at a restaurant in Kragujevac, Serbia, May 4, 2021. Reuters
Bangladesh will have to wait for some time to get the first commercial supply of vaccines from China, according to Ambassador Li Jiming. );
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“As per the first feedback I got from my colleagues in Beijing, the line is too long and you better not expect [commercial supply] before December,” he said.
“I said no, I need [it] as quickly as possible. Then I think I can make [it] much earlier than December but unfortunately not within the first half of this year,” Jiming said in an interaction with the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh, or DCAB, on Monday.
5 lakh doses of Chinese vaccine to arrive on May 12: Envoy
Sun Online Desk
10th May, 2021 12:13:45
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Monday officially announced that 5 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will reach Bangladesh on May 12 as a “special gift”. It s the latest outcome of China-Bangladesh anti-pandemic cooperation which again shows that our two peoples are in the same boat and we will stand with each other till the end of this battle, he said.
The Ambassador made the announcement during an interaction with the members of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) held virtually. DCAB President Pantho Rahaman and General Secretary AKM Moinuddin also spoke at the event.
Sinopharm begins shipment of its vaccine to Bangladesh
Sun Online Desk
Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm has started delivering its vaccine doses to Bangladesh.
The company has finished packing 500 thousand doses of the gifted vaccine, which are now heading towards Beijing Capital International Airport in a cold-chain container truck.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Monday officially announced that 5 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will reach Bangladesh on May 12 as a “special gift”. It s the latest outcome of China-Bangladesh anti-pandemic cooperation which again shows that our two peoples are in the same boat and we will stand with each other till the end of this battle, he said.
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Published: 10 May 2021 08:12 PM BdST
Updated: 10 May 2021 08:12 PM BdST The Chinese Embassy in Dhaka posted photos of a cold-chain container carrying 500,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses for Bangladesh to Beijing Capital International Airport.
Sinopharm has finished packing 500,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and the shots are on way to Bangladesh as a gift from China. );
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The Chinese Embassy in Dhaka posted photos of a cold-chain container carrying the doses to Beijing Capital International Airport on Monday evening.
“#Sinopharm vaccines are on the way to #Bangladesh!
The company just finished packing for the 500 thousand doses of gifted vaccines, which are heading to Beijing Capital International Airport in a cold-chain container truck now.