Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that the government would take foreign technical assistance for the judicial probe committee formed to investigate the deaths during quota movement, aiming to ensure proper and standard inquiry.

‘We will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial enquiry committee to make it appropriate and standard,’ she said.

The prime minister said this while German ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban.

PM’s press secretary M Nayeemul Islam Khan briefed reporters after the call on.

The government formed a judicial probe committee with High Court Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman to probe all the deaths centering the quota reform movement in the country.

The prime minister said that in the meantime Bangladesh had communicated with United Nations regarding taking assistance for this enquiry.

The United Nations expressed their interest while Bangladesh also showed willingness, Nayeemul Islam Khan said.

The German ambassador said that his country will stay beside Bangladesh.

He said that Germany had a longstanding relation with Bangladesh and it would be continued.

He said that they were firmly confident over the recent speech of the prime minister that there would be an independent enquiry. ‘It will identify the culprits and trial will be held for them,’ he said.

Achim Troster said that the slow visa processing system of the Embassy in Bangladesh is not a dearth of goodwill, rather it is because of resource constrains.

He expressed regret for this unwilling delay in visa procedures.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina expressed satisfaction over the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Germany.

The German ambassador extended his condolences on the Mourning Day on Tuesday which was declared by the government to honour those who lost their lives, including law enforcement personnel, during the quota reform movement.

The decision was taken in the regular Cabinet meeting on Monday.

Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin was present among others at the meeting.