{"id":1741,"date":"2024-06-09T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T03:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T04:02:40","slug":"much-stronger-bangladesh-offering-many-opportunities-for-italian-businesspeople-ambassador-alessandro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2024\/06\/much-stronger-bangladesh-offering-many-opportunities-for-italian-businesspeople-ambassador-alessandro\/","title":{"rendered":"Much stronger Bangladesh offering many opportunities for Italian businesspeople: Ambassador Alessandro"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNB-United News of Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n

Ambassador Antonio Alessandro has said his country is looking for a broader cooperation with Bangladesh in the energy sector and they are very closely following the bidding for the international oil and gas companies to explore in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n

\u201cBangladesh has launched an international tender for exploration of gas and this is an important development. Many global companies are looking at this tender,\u201d he said in an interview with three media outlets including UNB at the embassy.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Alessandro said Italian Eni, which is the major multinational Italian company working in the oil and gas sector, is also monitoring this tender.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is still time ahead to consider bidding for the Italian company and for other companies. So, this is an important development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Update for Italy work visa applicants in Bangladesh<\/p>\n

Much stronger Bangladesh offering many opportunities for Italian businesspeople: Ambassador Alessandro <\/p>\n

Petrobangla, Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation, has floated the offshore bidding, inviting international oil and gas companies to explore in the Bangladesh maritime area in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n

The tender, named \u201cOil and Natural Gas Exploration Under Bangladesh Offshore Bidding Round 2024\u201d, was published recently giving six months time until September 9, 2024 for submission of the bids.<\/p>\n

Italy to recruit skilled workers: State Minister for Expatriates<\/p>\n

As per the floated tender, a total of 24 offshore blocks \u2014 of which nine are shallow blocks \u2014 and 15 deep sea blocks are available for the bidding round.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question from UNB, the ambassador said the energy sector in Bangladesh is very important and it is a big challenge for Bangladesh to find the sources of energy for its development and also to make the energy system more sustainable moving towards renewable.<\/p>\n

He said Bangladesh and Italy signed two MoUs, including one on the energy sector, in July last year when Prime Minister Hasina visited Rome.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we need to implement this agreement and cooperate more in the energy sector. And LNG is one of the areas. And renewable – also energy from waste to energy projects \u2013 this is another important area where Italian companies are quite developed and there are many opportunities in Bangladesh,\u201d said the envoy, adding that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is one area within a broader context.<\/p>\n

A Much Stronger Bangladesh<\/p>\n

Ambassador Alessandro said the relations between Bangladesh and Italy are growing and which are now multifaceted. \u201cThey are growing because both countries are evolving. Bangladesh is not anymore an LDC and is quite a much stronger country with developing in many areas, presenting many opportunities for Italian business people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Italy also, at the same time, is growing his role within the European Union and globally. \u201cSo, the two countries relations are growing also because of this bridge represented by the Bangladeshi community in Italy, which acts as a bridge between the two countries, and the community is also growing in numbers and in quality.<\/p>\n

Explaining why the relations are multifaceted, Alessandro said if they look at the relations 30 years ago, maybe it was just development, humanitarian aid and some basic trade.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow our relations are more diverse. And there is trade, migration, defense and culture. So the spectrum of what we can do together is much broader, and I see a lot of potential in our relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador said there is untapped potentials, meaning that the two countries have a lot to give each other and so far, this has not been expressed fully. \u201cSo, there is more than we can do together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ambassador said Bangladesh Armed Forces are quite developed and very effective, and this is demonstrated by the fact that the Bangladesh is the first largest troop contributor to the UN peacekeeping system.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo to maintain these, they need cooperation by other countries. Italy is proud to have been one of the countries that have cooperated with Bangladesh in this in this area, and we maintain very good relations with the Armed Forces of Bangladesh, Air Force, Navy, Army, Coast Guard, police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Alessandro said they are very happy to continue to work with Bangladesh and there are many forms of cooperation, not just buying arms. \u201cBuying arms is a bit of a simplistic way of putting that. So, the cooperation is broader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to a question, he said Secretary General (equivalent to Foreign Secretary) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is coming from Rome at the end of June for political consultations with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

He said the director for Italian Citizens Abroad will also visit on July 1 as every year they have a commemoration of the Holey Artisan Bakery terrorist attack that happened on first July, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year there is a ceremony to remember the victims of that attack. So, the director is coming. These are the short term visits. Then we will consider, of course, additional visits,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Regarding resumption of Biman Bangladesh Airlines\u2019 direct flights to Italy\u2019s Rome, he said they welcome this direct air connectivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI attended the launching ceremony of this new flight. It is a very good development in the Italy-Bangladesh relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Alessandro said opening up new routes and new flights depends on the demand. \u201cSo we should see the demand in the market and understand if there is space for more flights like that by demand or by eta airways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNB-United News of Bangladesh Ambassador Antonio Alessandro has said his country is looking for a broader cooperation with Bangladesh in the energy sector and they are very closely following the bidding for the international oil and gas companies to explore in the Bay of Bengal. \u201cBangladesh has launched an international tender for exploration of gas […]","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambdhaka.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}