Ambassador-designate Mushfiqul eyes stronger trade ties with Mexico

Bangladesh Ambassador-designate to Mexico Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey on Monday said he would put in his best efforts to significantly expand trade relations with the North American country in addition to exploring wider areas of cooperation between the two countries.

“There’s ample opportunity to further expand trade volume with Mexico,” he said, referring to the bilateral trade volume between the two countries which is now around $674.6 million.

While having an interaction with the members of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) over tea at its Lounge at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mushfiqul said there is a lot to do to present the country in Mexico. “I believe there is a huge scope to work to that end.”

He said it is a great privilege and honour for him to work in the team of Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus. “I will try my best to show due respect to the trust and confidence that he has placed in me.”

Nobel Laureate Dr Yunus offered his vision of an emerging new economic system in his book ‘A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions’. Ambassador Mushfiqul said there is a huge campaign in favour of Dr Yunus’s vision of “Three Zeros” and social business.

Earlier, DCAB President AKM Moinuddin and General Secretary Md Arifuzzaman Mamun, together with its members, greeted Ambassador Mushfiqul at the DCAB Lounge.

In October 2024, the interim government appointed journalist Mushfiqul as an Ambassador of Bangladesh with the rank of senior secretary for three years.

Diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Mexico were officially established on 8 July 1975, four years after Bangladesh’s emergence as an independent country.

Bangladesh and Mexico did not have resident missions in their respective capitals until 2013.

Bangladesh opened its diplomatic Mission in Mexico City in June 2013 with the view to engage with the country in a proactive manner.

Mexico is yet to reciprocate with a resident Mission in Dhaka.

The Mexican Ambassador resident in New Delhi is concurrently accredited to Bangladesh.