Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said steps will be taken to sign standard operating procedures (SOPs) soon to bring back undocumented Bangladeshis living in the UK.
The minister was talking to reporters after a meeting with the British High Commissioner in Dhaka at his Secretariat office on Wednesday afternoon.
"British High Commissioner Sarah Cook has come to our office for the first time since arriving in Dhaka. Britain has a long-standing relationship with us,” said the home minister.
“Some undocumented Bangladeshis are in Britain. We have standard operating procedures (SOPs) with Europe, and an SOP was signed to bring back those living there illegally. We talked about signing an SOP with the UK as well. We have said that we will sign this SOP very soon,” Asaduzzaman added.
“They want to cooperate with our country in every way. They want to train our law enforcement agencies. We also told them that our police officers have received training from you before. We want to continue that,” the minister also said.
Asked if BNP’s Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman could be brought back to the country from the UK through standard operating procedures, he said, "We will try our best."
