The government has asked expatriate Bangladeshis to identify the persons involved in defrauding those who seek jobs abroad and inform the concerned authorities.
'Identify the persons who are cheating the jobseekers. Socially boycott them.
Inform the missions abroad of them so that the government can take action against them,' said foreign affairs minister Dipu Moni while speaking at a function, hosted by Bangladeshi embassy in Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for launching machine readable passports and visas.
Describing expatriate Bangladeshis as ambassadors of the country, she said, 'Foreigners will judge Bangladesh by your actions.'
Dipu Moni requested the Bangladeshis living abroad to remain united. 'Together we will prevail,' she said.
She also urged expatriate Bangladeshis to collect machine readable passports much ahead of 31 March, 2015, the last date set by the International Civil Aviation
Organisation to give MRPs to all passport holders of its member countries.
Bangladesh is a member of the ICAO.
The foreign minister also urged all Bangladeshis abroad to abide by the laws of the host countries.
She asked all expatriate Bangladeshis to ensure that they, their friends and relatives did not earn a bad name for Bangladesh.
Dipu Moni encouraged others to vote for the Sundarbans to make it the world's number one natural wonder and herself inaugurated the casting of votes.
State minister for home affairs Shamsul Hoque Tuku, Bangladesh's ambassador to Saudi Arabia M Shahidul Islam and director general of Immigration and Passport M Abdul Mabud also spoke on the occasin.
Mabud urged genuine Bangladeshi nationals to remain alert so that no person, who is not a real citizen of Bangladesh, can collect the passport of their country.
The government started issuing machine readable passports on 13 May, 2010.
The authorities will gradually replace 13 million manual passports with MRPs, according to officials of the Department of Immigration and Passport.
With the introduction of the latest the visa issuance system, all the immigration check-posts of the country will be able to verify the authenticity of Bangladeshi visas online to check any fraudulence, they said.
Dipu Moni also called on the vice-governor of Riyadh, Prince Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, on Wednesday afternoon and requested him to use his good offices to solve the problems facing Bangladeshi workers, including inadequate number of work permits (ekama) and extension of ekama.
She said that Bangladesh's government has started streamlining the labour sector by setting up skill training centres and an expatriate welfare bank, and reducing migration costs.
Dipu Moni pointed out that the host government could take legal action against expatriates involved in criminal activities.
'It is necessary to identify the persons, who are few in number, involved in criminal activities in the host country,' she said. 'We do not want that a few people ruin the image of the country.'
Sattam stressed the need for further discussion between the two governments to solve the problems.
He said the KSA is willing to take skilled workers from Bangladesh.
Dipu Moni also requested Sattam to use his good offices to increase Saudi investment in, and manpower import from, Bangladesh.
Sattam said he would convey Bangladesh's requests to the concerned Arabian authorities.
Source : New Age
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