Regarding recent press reports that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had alleged that a \u201cwhite man\u201d had offered her the ability to stay in power without any pressure if she allowed a foreign country to establish an airbase in the Bay of Bengal, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said, \u201cif it is in fact the United States, I\u2019ll just say that they\u2019re not accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller responded to a question from State Department correspondent Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey during a June 4 briefing. Ansarey had called attention to PM Sheikh Hasina\u2019s reported remarks during a ruling 14-party alliance meeting in Dhaka on May 23. PM Hasina allegedly said, \u201cThe plot is still there. With a part of Bangladesh like East Timor [broken off from Indonesia], then Chittagong [Chittagong Hill Tracts], Myanmar will form a Christian state. A base will be built in the Bay of Bengal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She reportedly said there had been a conspiracy not to allow the election in Bangladesh earlier this year. \u201cBut the holding of the election would be allowed and I would face no difficulty in retaining power if I allowed them to build a base in the Bay of Bengal. It was a proposal from a white person,\u201d said the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIs Sheikh Hasina shooting too many arrows towards the US as you are asking for free, fair, and credible elections and rule of law and anti-corruption?\u201d Ansarey asked at the briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In reply, Miller said, \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure who those comments refer to, but if it is in fact the United States, I\u2019ll just say that they\u2019re not accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIs Sheikh Hasina shooting too many arrows towards the US as you are asking for free, fair, and credible elections and rule of law and anti-corruption?\u201d Ansarey asked at the briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saperspectives.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}