Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the capital yesterday prior to leaving for New York to attend the UN General Assembly. Photo: PID In her speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will highlight international peace and security, democracy and good governance, empowerment of women, poverty alleviation and climate
change. Hasina, who left Dhaka for the United States last night to attend the 69th session of the UNGA with a 185-member delegation, the biggest entourage in the history of Bangladesh, will address the session on September 27, said Foreign Ministry officials. She will deliver the speech in Bangla as usual. The prime minister in her speech will elaborate Bangladesh's position on the theme of the general debate of the 69th UNGA: "Delivering on and Implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda". Hasina will highlight Bangladesh's achievements in establishing democracy and good governance and empowering women. She will also reflect on Bangladesh's progress in achieving millennium development goals (MDGs), and her government's steps to alleviate poverty and face the challenges posed by climate change, said sources at the foreign ministry. She will draw the international community's attention to the interests of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the rights of migrant workers. Her speech will also incorporate her government's initiatives to combat adverse impacts of climate change and Bangladesh's position on post-2015 sustainable development goals. During her seven-day stay in New York, the prime minister will participate in a number of UN meetings and side events, most significantly a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Advertisement On the sidelines, she will also meet Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail V Myasnikovich, Ameer of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hasmad Al-Thani and Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, among others. She will leave the US on September 29 on a US Air flight and will have a stopover in London on September 30. She will depart London on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight on October 1 and is expected to arrive in Dhaka on the morning of October 2. Hasina's delegation comprises six ministers, one state minister, two advisers, three members of parliamentary standing committee on foreign ministry, 18 eminent personalities, 15 officials from the Prime Minister's Office, eight from the foreign ministry, 11 from other ministries, 20 security personnel, 10 media personalities, 13 of the PM's media team, 75 prominent businessmen, the Bangladesh Ambassador to US and the Permanent Representative to UN. The ministers and advisers are: Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain, Food Minister Kamrul Islam; Prime Minister's Political Adviser HT Imam, Economic Affairs Adviser Mashiur Rahman; and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam. Former foreign minister Dipu Moni and industries minister Dilip Barua have also been included in the delegation. Nazmul Haq Prodhan, Prime Minister's Information Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Editor of Daily Janakantha MA Khan Masud, and central and local leaders of Awami League, Workers Party, Ganotantri Party, Gano Azadi League, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, among others, have been incorporated in the delegation as eminent citizens.
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