Dhaka, Oct. 14 -- Bangladesh now expects "support", including grants, from the United States after agreeing to buy 25 aircraft from US manufacturer Boeing and increasing imports of oil, wheat and essential commodities from the country, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury says.

"We have strongly made the point [in talks with the US Treasury] that if the support does not come now, then when will it?" he said.

"This is a relationship in which Bangladesh imports so much. We are reducing the balance-of-payments gap, as they have asked us to do. In that context, this support should come. They have agreed with us. Let's see what happens."

Khosru made the remarks on Wednesday while briefing journalists about discussions with the US T...