Readers Respond
Here are some comments that came in response to Sunday's The Daily Star report headlined “PM offers peace model”.
Anonymous
To the members of the United Nations: You have heard the prime minister of Bangladesh giving a peace model. Please come to Bangladesh and see for yourself how peaceful the country is! Mahbub Mansur Emon
The prime minister's six-point peace model is really fantastic and praiseworthy. It's easy to give advice but it's hard to achieve the goals. Ryan
Isn't it a bit ironic? Can't she speak to the opposition leader at home first, before lecturing about world peace? SG
Her words on the international issues are words from a real leader; it is bold and demanding. Thank you, Prime Minister. However, more important are the internal issues of our country such as poverty, price hike, corruption and so on. Honourable PM, I hope you would concentrate more on these issues and fix these. Mike
The PM of Bangladesh should be the last person to speak about peace and poverty. I've lived in Bangladesh and never seen so many underprivileged people suppressed by a few privileged people. The rich in Bangladesh should be ashamed of themselves and the PM should resign and make way for the people with a good heart to lead the country. Anonymous
The prime minister has proposed a very sensible model for world development. If the UN takes action on those 6 issues, the world will be a much better place to live in. But instead of waiting for the United Nations to do this job, she should implement this in her own country. She should review the present situation to make plans and implement them immediately without waiting for anybody to do these for her country. Faqrul
No doubt it is a good piece of speech. The political vision in the speech is unclear with regard to handling the current international focus point of crisis and financial uncertainty. On the other hand, just look at the brief news item on the right side in which the Indian prime minister addresses the most talked about issue on Middle East peace - a proposal of Palestine statehood by their president and supported by the Indian prime minister having no ambiguity. A reader
The people behind the drafting of these six points with the idea of it being proposed by the honorable PM of our country in the UN general assembly must have been overenthusiastic by their sycophantic instincts so much so that they forgot about the venue where it has to be proposed and of the people assembled there. Presumably they got carried away to such an extent that they even forgot it was not a gathering of the poor Bangladeshi commoners but of those people who are far more aware of the anatomy of Bangladesh, its politicians and its politics. Fida Likhon
Try to eradicate the corruption in Bangladesh which is known as one of the most corrupt countries in the world and then come up to become a world leader. Please avoid any delusion of being big under the influence of some big power, because they behave differently in time of their own need. The Middle East is itself a glaring example of what they can do. Bangladesh needs first to develop itself economically to the level of the fast growing economies like India, before claiming its place among the countries that matter to the world powers. And to become a world power, we better leave that to the future when we can propose something to the world. But unfortunately, we are very far behind India in terms of economy, science and technology!
To the members of the United Nations: You have heard the prime minister of Bangladesh giving a peace model. Please come to Bangladesh and see for yourself how peaceful the country is! Mahbub Mansur Emon
The prime minister's six-point peace model is really fantastic and praiseworthy. It's easy to give advice but it's hard to achieve the goals. Ryan
Isn't it a bit ironic? Can't she speak to the opposition leader at home first, before lecturing about world peace? SG
Her words on the international issues are words from a real leader; it is bold and demanding. Thank you, Prime Minister. However, more important are the internal issues of our country such as poverty, price hike, corruption and so on. Honourable PM, I hope you would concentrate more on these issues and fix these. Mike
The PM of Bangladesh should be the last person to speak about peace and poverty. I've lived in Bangladesh and never seen so many underprivileged people suppressed by a few privileged people. The rich in Bangladesh should be ashamed of themselves and the PM should resign and make way for the people with a good heart to lead the country. Anonymous
The prime minister has proposed a very sensible model for world development. If the UN takes action on those 6 issues, the world will be a much better place to live in. But instead of waiting for the United Nations to do this job, she should implement this in her own country. She should review the present situation to make plans and implement them immediately without waiting for anybody to do these for her country. Faqrul
No doubt it is a good piece of speech. The political vision in the speech is unclear with regard to handling the current international focus point of crisis and financial uncertainty. On the other hand, just look at the brief news item on the right side in which the Indian prime minister addresses the most talked about issue on Middle East peace - a proposal of Palestine statehood by their president and supported by the Indian prime minister having no ambiguity. A reader
The people behind the drafting of these six points with the idea of it being proposed by the honorable PM of our country in the UN general assembly must have been overenthusiastic by their sycophantic instincts so much so that they forgot about the venue where it has to be proposed and of the people assembled there. Presumably they got carried away to such an extent that they even forgot it was not a gathering of the poor Bangladeshi commoners but of those people who are far more aware of the anatomy of Bangladesh, its politicians and its politics. Fida Likhon
Try to eradicate the corruption in Bangladesh which is known as one of the most corrupt countries in the world and then come up to become a world leader. Please avoid any delusion of being big under the influence of some big power, because they behave differently in time of their own need. The Middle East is itself a glaring example of what they can do. Bangladesh needs first to develop itself economically to the level of the fast growing economies like India, before claiming its place among the countries that matter to the world powers. And to become a world power, we better leave that to the future when we can propose something to the world. But unfortunately, we are very far behind India in terms of economy, science and technology!
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