Dhaka, Dec. 8 -- Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said the government does not want any kind of conflict and will maintain "maximum restraint" though many people want a dead body to get public sentiment.

"We don't want any sort of conflict. Sometimes there are instigations to get involved in conflict. There is a desire in some people to see a dead body. They are very happy when they see the dead body which brings public sentiment," he told reporters in Cox's Bazar.

Momen said the news regarding Wednesday's incident reached Washington before it had happened in Dhaka because of a Bangladeshi journalist who has access to the White House and the United Nations. "May be that's why the US was so prompt."

He said like the US, Ba...