DHAKA: Visiting German parliamentary delegation paid a courtesy call on speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury at the latter’s office on Monday morning. 

During the parley, the chairman of the delegation Dagmar Woehrl congratulated her host on being the first female speaker of Bangladesh and praised her leadership role, says a press release. 

Woehrl also informed the speaker on their visit to the textile factories and Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Savar Sunday where the committee observed the working conditions in factories and met with survivors of the collapsed Rana Plaza building respectively.

The delegation chief said, “We have talked to both the factory owners and the victims of the tragic accident. Now, we hope that the Bangladeshi parliamentarians will take clear initiatives to amend the existing labour laws and to improve the social security standards of the workers to fully meet ILO standards so that similar preventable incidents can be avoided in the future.”             

Earlier the delegation briefly met with the members of the German Bangladesh Parliamentary Friendship Group.

BDST: 1840 HRS, APR 28, 2014