Dhaka – Bangladesh on Monday condemned an attack at one of its diplomatic missions in neighbouring India allegedly by a radical Hindu group.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said a large group of protesters from the Hindu Sangharsh Samity, a platform of Hindus, carried out the attack at the Bangladesh consulate office in Agartala, the capital of eastern Indian State of Tripura.
“The accounts received conclusively attest that the protesters were allowed to aggress into the premises by breaking down the main gate of Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in a pre-planned manner,” said the statement in reference to the consulate attack.
The protesters vandalized the flagpole, desecrated Bangladesh’s national flag and damaged properties inside the office, it said regretting the role of the local law enforcing agencies in handling the situation.
“This particular act in Agartala stands in violation of the inviolability of diplomatic missions, as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, asks for,” reads the statement.
Dhaka also called New Delhi to undertake a thorough investigation into the consulate attack and to prevent any further acts of violence against the diplomatic missions of Bangladesh in India, according to the statement.
It demanded safety and security of the diplomats and consulate staffs and of their families.
The statement added that Bangladesh government would further like to underline that this heinous attack on a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh and desecration of the national flag comes in a pattern, further to a similar violent demonstration in Kolkata on 28 November 2024.
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