Contracts of Ambassadors to Germany, Japan, And Iraq Canceled

The contracts of ambassadors to Germany, Japan, and Iraq were canceled. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification on Tuesday canceling the remaining tenure of the three ambassadors.

Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Shahabuddin Ahmed, and Md. Fazlul Bari, who were former bureaucrats, served as ambassadors to Germany, Japan, and Iraq, respectively. On August 14, the foreign ministry issued separate official orders asking seven ambassadors and high commissioners to return home. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and Shahabuddin Ahmed were ordered to return home on that day. There was no instruction for Fazlul Bari to return home.

Last month, the US ambassador to Russia Kamrul Ahsan, UAE ambassador Abu Zafar, and Saudi ambassador Javed Patwary were asked to return to the foreign ministry headquarters in Dhaka alongside the ambassadors to Germany and Japan. They were serving on a contract at the end of their normal term of service. On the same day, a separate notification asked Rear Admiral SM Abul Kalam Azad, a senior naval officer appointed as the High Commissioner to the Maldives, to return to the Foreign Ministry.

Foreign Ministry officials informed that the top diplomats of six missions, other than the Maldives, were given four weeks’ time to leave their duties and return to the foreign ministry in the country.

Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Javed Patwary left Riyadh on December 28. Unconfirmed sources said he had gone to a Western country after stepping down as ambassador.