Bangladesh will appoint certified lawyers in the United States to pursue the withdrawal of sanctions imposed on the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). “We’re in the process of appointing legal assistance in the US,” Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said this week, noting that it is a legal process, not an administrative one. As Bangladeshi lawyers will not be able to do the job, it will have to be done by the certified lawyers in the US, he said, adding that some initial legal steps have been taken already. The foreign secretary said the process is different in dealing with the sanctions on individuals and Rab as an institution. Read: No defence procurement from US now; signing GSOMIA to take time: FS He recently visited the United States and accompanied Foreign Minister  AK Abdul Momen at the bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US State Department on April 4. Masud also led the Bangladesh delegation at the 8th Bangladesh-US Security Dialogue held in Washington. Bangladesh sought resumption of training and capacity building programmes for its law enforcement agencies in any format.