Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will join the inaugural session of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session here tomorrow morning. According to his programme schedule, he will hold a meeting with the director general of World Trade Organisation (WTO) at 10:30 am tomorrow (NY time). The chief adviser will also hold a meeting with the President of World Bank at 11 am. A meeting between Prof Yunus and The Her Majesty Máxima, Queen of the Netherlands, will be held at 11:30 am. He will attend an event titled “Fashion for Development (F4D): 13th Annual Official First Ladies Luncheon”…
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Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today urged the young people to build three zero clubs aiming to change the world. “I speak of a world of ‘three zeros’: Zero Net Carbon Emissions, Zero Wealth Concentration to End Poverty and Zero Unemployment by unleashing creativity in all,” he said while delivering his Keynote Speech at UN High Level Side Event on Social Business, Youth and Technology at UN Headquarters here. Prof Yunus also emphasised the Zero Waste and called for being a part of the UN Secretary General’s “zero waste initiative”. “This is not a dream. It is already becoming reality,”…
Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium met Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of an event at the UN headquarters here today. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also called on Prof Yunus as IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva met the Bangladesh Chief Adviser as well at the UN headquarters here. Prof Yunus today arrived in New York to attend the 80th UNGA session. A commercial flight of Emirates airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourages landed at the John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, at 3:00 pm (NY time) today.
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said his government is prepared to ensure a free, fair, and peaceful general election in the first half of February in Bangladesh as he had a meeting with United States (US) Special Envoy Sergio Gor here. “The election will be held in February. It will be free, fair, and peaceful. The country is fully prepared,” he told the Special Envoy for South and Central Asia and the US Ambassador-designate to India on Monday (NY time). Sergio Gor commended the Chief Adviser’s leadership and reiterated the United States’ willingness to support the…
At least five people were killed by an Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon on Sunday, including three children, the Lebanese health ministry said, with the president denouncing it as a “massacre”. The state-run National News Agency reported that the strike, near Bint Jbeil, had targeted a motorcycle. The Israeli military later said it had “struck and eliminated a Hezbollah terrorist in the Bint Jbeil area of southern Lebanon. “The terrorist operated from within a civilian population and in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” it added. “As a result of the strike, several uninvolved civilians were killed.…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left here for New York in the early hours of today to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A commercial flight of Emirates airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka at about 1:40 am, Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said. Five political leaders – BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP acting chairman’s foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syeed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, National Citizen Party (NCP) member-secretary Akhter Hossen and NCP’s first senior joint member secretary Dr Tasnim Jara- are…
A court here has ordered the confiscation of US$81 million from the Philippines’ Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in connection with the 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist, said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police. “The court issued the order last Thursday (18 September) to confiscate the funds held in the RCBC, over nine years after the theft,” said Chief of CID Md Sibgat Ullah at a press conference in the city, said a press release. He said a copy of the court order has been sent to senior officials of RCBC in the Philippines. The Senior Special…
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday that Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian state was a necessary step toward lasting peace in the region. “His excellency praised the United Kingdom’s recognition of the independent State of Palestine, affirming that it constitutes an important and necessary step toward achieving a just and lasting peace in accordance with international legitimacy,” Abbas’s office said in a statement.
Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal recognised the State of Palestine on Sunday, a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy that drew swift anger from Israel and a rebuke from the United States. Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip welcomed the recognition as a victory, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed in response that a Palestinian state would never exist. The United States also criticised the the moves as “performative” and said it was focused on finding a diplomatic solution to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Other countries, including France, are also due to recognise a Palestinian state during key…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has “fond memories” of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States — if he can keep his nukes. Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump’s first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its nuclear arsenal. The US demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under successive rafts of UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. “If the…
