Dipu for dialogue to ensure peaceful, stable South Asia
Dhaka, June 2 (UNB) - Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has observed that all the security challenges can be addressed through dialogue and appreciation of each other’s perspectives to ensure peace and stability in the South Asian region.
While delivering her statement today (Saturday) at a special session on ‘South Asia’s Growing Security Threats’ at the 11th Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, she said this region is now a focus of major international attention.
Dipu Moni said South Asia has got the potential as one of the most economically dynamic regions of the world and as an area where there are several areas of stress that has the potential of escalating into violence and conflicts.
She said this is also a region which has witnessed three major wars in post 1947 as well as international efforts to contain extremism and related violence.
The Foreign Minister said traditional as well as non-traditional forms of security aspects are affecting the world as a whole. “Today’s world is facing human, climate, food, energy, economic, environmental and social security threats, besides the state-centric border security dimension.”
She said China’s influence in Asia and the Pacific, India’s aspiration as a major international player and anti-Western sentiment carried by the Islamist groups have placed South Asia as a strategically important region today.
Dipu Moni went on saying that a sense of grievances sets in whenever peripheral countries cannot fetch the maximum from the global economic system or feel exploited by the capitalist economy and this is affecting international security by various means including rise of extremism.
She said food and water scarcity, energy deficit, carbon emission, sea level rise, environmentally induced displacement, bearing the brunt of emissions from industrialised economies by the small countries like the Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal have also constituted a major security threat in the present world.
Terming the poverty and under-development as the principal common threat for the South Asian countries, the Foreign Minister called for concerted efforts by all the neighbouring countries to overcome this threat.
Ministers, leaders, security experts of the Asia-Pacific region attending the three day security summit known as Shangri-La - Dialogue appreciated her statement.
London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and
World’s leading think tank on political and military conflicts, has been arranging this security summit annually in Singapore since 2002.
Earlier, Dipu Moni had a bilateral meeting with Myanmar Defence Minister Lt Gen Hla Min. Both the leaders discussed on a wide range of bilateral issues.
Appreciating the recent political reform and democratisation process in Myanmar, the Foreign Minister called for expeditious repatriation of residual Myanmar refugees and undocumented Myanmar nationals living in Bangladesh.
The Myanmar Defence Minister reiterated his government’s commitment to resolving this longstanding issue for the best interest of both the friendly neighbours.
While delivering her statement today (Saturday) at a special session on ‘South Asia’s Growing Security Threats’ at the 11th Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, she said this region is now a focus of major international attention.
Dipu Moni said South Asia has got the potential as one of the most economically dynamic regions of the world and as an area where there are several areas of stress that has the potential of escalating into violence and conflicts.
She said this is also a region which has witnessed three major wars in post 1947 as well as international efforts to contain extremism and related violence.
The Foreign Minister said traditional as well as non-traditional forms of security aspects are affecting the world as a whole. “Today’s world is facing human, climate, food, energy, economic, environmental and social security threats, besides the state-centric border security dimension.”
She said China’s influence in Asia and the Pacific, India’s aspiration as a major international player and anti-Western sentiment carried by the Islamist groups have placed South Asia as a strategically important region today.
Dipu Moni went on saying that a sense of grievances sets in whenever peripheral countries cannot fetch the maximum from the global economic system or feel exploited by the capitalist economy and this is affecting international security by various means including rise of extremism.
She said food and water scarcity, energy deficit, carbon emission, sea level rise, environmentally induced displacement, bearing the brunt of emissions from industrialised economies by the small countries like the Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal have also constituted a major security threat in the present world.
Terming the poverty and under-development as the principal common threat for the South Asian countries, the Foreign Minister called for concerted efforts by all the neighbouring countries to overcome this threat.
Ministers, leaders, security experts of the Asia-Pacific region attending the three day security summit known as Shangri-La - Dialogue appreciated her statement.
London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and
World’s leading think tank on political and military conflicts, has been arranging this security summit annually in Singapore since 2002.
Earlier, Dipu Moni had a bilateral meeting with Myanmar Defence Minister Lt Gen Hla Min. Both the leaders discussed on a wide range of bilateral issues.
Appreciating the recent political reform and democratisation process in Myanmar, the Foreign Minister called for expeditious repatriation of residual Myanmar refugees and undocumented Myanmar nationals living in Bangladesh.
The Myanmar Defence Minister reiterated his government’s commitment to resolving this longstanding issue for the best interest of both the friendly neighbours.
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