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She replaced Ambassador Masud Bin Momen who had been in this position since 3 November 2015. Prior to Ambassador Masud Bin Momen, Dr. AK Abdul Momen was the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN from 2009 to 2015 . [3] The mission observed Pahela Baishakh, Bengali New Year, in 2018 at its headquarters in New York City. [4]
As promised, Ali and 70 employees at the Deputy High Commission swore allegiance to the Bangladesh Government, turning the Pakistan High Commission on 9 Circus Avenue into the Bangladesh Mission in Kolkata for good. [55] [56] The mission came to house part of the government's offices, most importantly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [57]
A montage of notable people of and events of Bangladesh in the 1970s including (clockwise from top left): Image of the Bhola cyclone taken on 11 November 1970; Pakistan's PNS Ghazi sank in 1971 during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Lt Gen Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender under the gaze of Lt Gen Aurora at Dhaka on 16 December 1971; President Ziaur Rahman; Bangladesh PM Sheikh Mujib and ...
The politicians elected in 1970 formed the provisional parliament of the new state. The Mukti Bahini and other militias amalgamated to form a new Bangladeshi army to which Indian forces transferred control on 17 March. The government faced serious challenges, which including the rehabilitation of millions of people displaced in 1971, organising ...
The first diplomatic mission of modern Bangladesh was founded in Kolkata on 18 April 1971 after M Hossain Ali, the deputy high commissioner of Pakistan, and the other ethnic Bengali staff at the mission defected to the Bangladeshi provisional government amidst a spate of similar defections around the world during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched a crackdown on East Pakistan and started the 1971 Hinduphobic, anti-Bengali Bangladesh Genocide. Archer Blood was then the U.S. consul general in Dhaka, East Pakistan. The staff at the U.S. consulate in Dhaka were "horrified" by the violence and asked Washington, D.C. to intervene. Blood later ...
Inside Bangladesh it’s being dubbed a Gen Z revolution – a protest movement that pitted mostly young student demonstrators against a 76-year-old leader who had dominated her nation for decades ...
In May 2005, Blood was posthumously awarded the Outstanding Services Award by the Bangladeshi-American Foundation, Inc. (BAFI) at the First Bangladeshi-American Convention. [19] Blood received this Award for his role in 1970 and 1971 for the cause of humanity and his brave stance against the US official policy while the Pakistan army was ...