Bangladeshi President Shahabuddin Ahmed told Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Sunday his country will continue to support Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
"We believe Japan has the right to become a permanent member, not because it is providing economic aid to developing countries, but because of what it has achieved since World War II," the official quoted Ahmed as saying.
Mori, who was on a two-day visit to Bangladesh that began Saturday, told Ahmed he will emphasize the need to reform the UNSC at the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York next month, according to the official.
Bangladesh is currently a nonpermanent member of the UNSC.