US President Donald Trump has congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her landslide victory in the Dec 30 national election.
Trump conveyed his felicitatory message to the PM through a letter, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam told Bangla Tribune.
Trump, in the letter, expressed his gratefulness to Bangladesh for providing shelter to Rohingya people, which fled persecution in Myanmar.
The US president hoped PM Hasina will be keen to increase the economic growth as well as work on bilateral trade and investment.
He also hoped that she will keep her promises on human rights protection and strengthening democracy.
According to the sources at the foreign ministry, a senior White House official handed over the letter to the foreign secretary at Washington on Wednesday (Jan 23).
Earlier, US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino in a statement said the US “commends” the tens of millions of Bangladeshis who voted in elections as well as the decision of all major opposition political parties to participate, a “positive development” after the boycotted election of 2014.