Mahmudur Rahman Quotations

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-one will be allowed to have undue access to them.

No new power plant will be allowed to consume natural gas for electricity generation from the year 2012.

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.

The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.

They have offered a price even less than the present domestic price, how can we agree to that?

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,

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.

We could not reach agreement mainly on gas pricing and there will be no further negotiations on this (for now).