A Japanese parliamentary delegation engaged in labour issues today lauded improved working conditions in Bangladesh factories but insisted on more work for further progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must admit that the labour environment has improved (in Bangladesh), but there is still room for further progress,\u201d said Kenta Izumi, Member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.<\/p>\n
Izumi led the delegation members of the Japanese Parliamentarians’ League on the International Labour Organization (ILO) as they paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in the city.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, Izumi shared his observations from the delegates\u2019 visits to factories both inside and outside EPZs.<\/p>\n
Izumi added that during his visit to Japanese companies in Bangladesh, he felt a positive energy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope Japanese companies will invest more in infrastructure and other sectors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chief Adviser Professor Yunus hailed Japan as a trusted friend of Bangladesh and thanked the country for its cooperation over the years.<\/p>\n
He noted that the relationship between the two countries is multi-dimensional.<\/p>\n
The Chief Adviser highlighted that labour sector reform is one of the key priorities of Bangladesh\u2019s interim government and noted that his Special Envoy Lutfey Siddiqi had been specifically tasked with the implementation of all the ILO conventions and ensuring their timely adoption.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Japanese parliamentary delegation engaged in labour issues today lauded improved working conditions in Bangladesh factories but insisted on more work for further progress. \u201cWe must admit that the labour environment has improved (in Bangladesh), but there is still room for further progress,\u201d said Kenta Izumi, Member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Izumi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65724,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65722\/revisions\/65724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}