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Humayun off to Thailand
DHAKA, March 3, 2019 (BSS) – Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud
Humayun left here this morning for Thailand to join the high level meeting on
sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
The three-day ninth regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific is jointly
being organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Thailand, Ministry of
Environment of Japan and United Nations Centre for Regional Development in
Thai capital Bangkok, said a ministry release.
The 3R strategies are reduction, reuse and recycling of solid wastage
and misuse of raw materials.
The minister is scheduled to chair the plenary session tiled “Technology
as a driver for clean energy and green industry towards sufficient economy-
implications towards SDG-7, 9 and 12”.
Besides, he would highlight different activities taken by the government
to strengthen sustainable and green industrialization in Bangladesh. In
addition, the minister would take part as panel discussant in a high level
meeting for policy makers on circular economics.
Representatives of different countries from Asia and the Pacific would
participate in the forum to discuss the implementation modes of the 3R
strategies to attain the sustainable goals.
The minister is likely to return home on March 6.
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