British Foreign Secretary's trip
We all wholeheartedly welcomed the timely visit of the very articulate and smart Foreign Secretary of Britain. We hoped, back in London, he would take some lighter time to look back to his short visit to Bangladesh, and assimilate what he has seen, what he has heard and what he has said in public and private for our people, politicians and the government. We only hope that he had opportunities to appraise himself of the current economic and political situation obtaining in Bangladesh in its right perspective.
The roadmap. It is a highly used jargon in national and international conflict resolution. The success has been very limited so far. In our case the roadmap for democracy is a "wish list" drawn easily by the EC in computer. It is easier to draw a roadmap than to implement it. The implementation is fully dependent on the will and the capability of the roadmap planner and the government. This is where the nation needs to be assured by deeds and not by words or speech.
We have not heard anybody in Bangladesh expressing any negative view about the very utility of the roadmap. But the fundamental question remains about the creditability of those planning and implementing the roadmap.
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