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Dhaka -Chittagong -Cox’s Bazaar to be the Asian Highway
Staff Correspondent
8 July 02, the Bhorer Alo
The highway stretching from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazaar extending to Teknaf close to the Burmese border will be constructed as
an international route under the Asian Highway project. Directives in this
regard have been issued to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Communications
to hold talks with the Burmese counterparts for the development of the road
beyond Teknaf to Maungdaw
on the Burmese side and through
On Sunday the proposal to develop the Dhaka Chittagong
Teknaf portion of the Bangladeshi highway as a part
of the
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia
chaired the weekly cabinet meeting held in the Prime Minister’s Office. Members
of the Cabinet, Cabinet Secretary, Prime Minister’s Chief Secretary, and other
higher officials were among those who were present at the meeting.
Incidentally, if this section of Bangladesh is connected with the Asian
Highway, road links with all the Asian countries including Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and 31 other countries will be
established. Commerce and transportation by roads among the different countries
will be established. At the same time transportation cost and time will be
saved. It is hoped that tourist industry will flourish and the relation between
Bangaldesh and the resst of
the world will easier.
Meanwhile, the UN ESCAP has already informed the Burmese junta about the
willingness of the Bangladeshi government to construct the
An official from the Ministry of Communications told us that, Inida and