Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
US Political-Military Affairs engagement: security cooperation & peacekeeping.
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
(BIISS) has organized a Roundtable discussion to host the Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Programs and Operations, Bureau of Political-Military
Affairs, the US State Department, Donna Welton and her
delegation. Other members of the delegation include: Jennifer Pulliam,
Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) Program Director, Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs, the US State Department; and Mike Rembold,
Coordinator (GPOI), Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, State
Department. Maxwell Martin, Political-Military Affairs Officer,
U.S. Embassy Dhaka accompanied the delegation.
Four presentations were made by BIISS Researchers covering the
issues of ‘Bangladesh's Strategic Culture and Outlook’ by A.S.M. Tarek
Hassan Semul, Researh Fellow; ‘Bangladesh-US Security and Defence
Cooperation’ by M Ashique Rahman, Senior Researh Fellow;
‘Bangladesh in the Changing Nature of UN Peacekeeping Operations’, by Shanjida
Shahab Uddin, Research Fellow: and ‘Repatriation of Rohingyas: Role of
International Actors’ by Md. Jahan Shoieb, Research Fellow. A Q/A
session followed the presentations.
Acting Dirctor General Colonel M A Saadi, afwc, psc
delivered the address of welcome while Ambassador Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, PAA,
concluded the session with his concluding remarks.
