Dhaka, Nov. 27 -- Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday called upon the people not to listen to or be misguided by the comments of foreigners, saying that external influence never brings internal welfare in any country.

"Don't listen to foreigners, listen to your leaders," he said while approached by journalists to make comments on some foreign diplomats' remarks on internal affairs, at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.

The minister gave example of Afghanistan, Chili and Iran while explaining how several countries had suffered due to the influence of the foreign countries.

"Our experience is - when the foreigners get busy in (internal) affairs of (their) host countries, people's welfare doesn't take place," he said a...