Dhaka, Feb. 18 -- The interim government is making serious efforts to lift the UAE's visa restrictions on Bangladeshi citizens in a bid to export more workers from the country, said CA's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Tuesday.

"We want that the visa restrictions would go soon. If the visa restriction is lifted, we hope many Bangladeshis will get jobs there in the UAE," he said at a press briefing in the Foreign Service Academy here.

He said Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus raised the visa restriction issue during the talks with several UAE ministers during his recent visit to Dubai to attend the World Governments Summit.

"There was serious discussion on this issue. This discussion will continue in future," said Shafiqul Alam, adding...