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SPEAKER-EURASIAN (With picture)
Speaker for enhancing cooperation among Eurasian countries
DHAKA, Sept 24, 2019 (BSS) – Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Dr Shirin
Sharmin Chaudhury today urged parliamentarians to play a vital role in
enhancing cooperation among Eurasian countries for sustainable development.
“It is very important to share experiences among the Eurasian countries
apart from expanding economic, cultural and technological cooperation among
Eurasian countries in order to make development sustainable,” the speaker
said while addressing the 4th meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries
Parliamentarians in Nur-Sultan, capital of Kazakhstan.
Dr Shirin said Bangladesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina is moving forward. As a result, the poverty rate has dropped to 21
percent from 40 percent as the present government took initiatives for
welfare of the people.
Bangladesh will be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
along with continuation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), she
added.
The Speaker urged the international community to take effective steps to
resolve the Rohingya crisis, saying Myanmar has to establish a suitable
environment for ensuring peaceful repatriation of Rohingya people, who have
been forcibly displaced from their motherland Rakhine state in Myanmar in
August, 2017.
“Greater Eurasia: Dialogue, Trust and Partnership” is the theme of the
two-day conference that began on Monday.
Representatives from 65 countries of the Eurasian region and
representatives from 12 international and inter-parliamentary organisations
are attending the conference.
A delegation comprising lawmakers JS Whip Iqbalur Rahim, Abdullah Al Islam
Jacob, Begum Sagufta Yasmin, Bodruddoza Md Farhad Hossain and Awami League
Central Working Committee member Advocate ABM Riazul Kabir Kawsar, are
accompanying the speaker.
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