LI President encourages newly elected Bangladeshi Jatiyo Sangsad to work constructively together
Speaking to a crowded meeting of MP's where he was giving the closing key-note speech of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) organized post-election orientation programme, Lord Alderdice also appealed to the Opposition to do all possible to make the parliament work. He said: 'Parliaments are not just talking shops, they are in a very real way the alternative to and bulwark against violence in the community.'
At the very time Lord Alderdice was speaking there was a mutiny of the Bangladesh Rifles (the BDR are the country's border guards) in which many officers and others were killed.
Please refer to http://www.liberal-international.org/contentFiles/files/PressReleaseSpeechAlderdiceFMarch2009.pdf for more information about the event.
