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Bangabandhu satellite opens new chapter toward middle-income country: Bernicat

DHAKA, July 3, 2018 (BSS) – US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat today said the Bangabandhu satellite One, launched to space with support of NASA and SpaceX, is opening of a new chapter in Bangladesh’s rapid acceleration toward becoming a middle-income country.

“The Bangabandhu One satellite is a true testament to the remarkable will and innovation of the Bangladeshi people. This ambition for growth and progress that unites Americans and Bangladeshis,” she said while delivering her speech at the US Independence Day reception in the capital.

Bernicat said the wisdom and determination of the Bangladeshi people had created an independent, secular, and democratic nation in 1971.

Forty-seven years later, the same wisdom and determination launched the Bangabandhu satellite into space,” she observed.

The US envoy expressed her belief that the same wisdom and determination will fulfill the dream of a Sonar Bangla for future generations.

This is Bernicat’s last Independence Day celebration as the US Ambassador to Bangladesh as her tenure here will be ended shortly.

When she will come to visit Bangladesh again, she expects to see a dramatically different country, more advanced and developed one.

“But a Bangladesh with the same determination and passion for liberty that has endured since 1971,” she added. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali attended the programme as the chief guest.

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