Mahmudur Rahmanis the one of the owners and acting editor of one of Bangladesh's Bengali daily newspapers, Amar Desh. He is also an engineer and businessman... (wikipedia)
So far three probe reports were received and we are waiting for another one. After getting that report, we will take opinion from the legal experts and move forward with a compensation claim package.
Since they want guarantee for 20 years for uninterrupted gas supply we cannot compromise on the price and they have to pay more than $2.
No new power plant will be allowed to consume natural gas for electricity generation from the year 2012.
No-one will be allowed to have undue access to them.
If they seek a guarantee, the price will have to be higher.
There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to link any of the three issues to the tri-nation pipeline, which is in principle opposite to our position,
We could not reach agreement mainly on gas pricing and there will be no further negotiations on this (for now).
The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.
Finally, it will be up to the policymakers to decide on the matter.
The third round bidding might be dominated by China, Japan, Russia, Thailand, Malaysia and India.
They (the team) are quite serious to invest in Bangladesh for two reasons. Firstly, the cost of production in Malaysia has gone up remarkably and, secondly, Bangladesh has a huge domestic market for consumer products.
They have offered a price even less than the present domestic price, how can we agree to that?
The greatest investors in Bangladesh are from the USA and the UK. So we thought, why not have Kuwaiti and GCC investors? We also plan to hold a single country exhibition in Kuwait in 2006.