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Published: 10 Jan 2021 11:49 AM BdST
Updated: 10 Jan 2021 11:59 AM BdST
The Bangladesh High Commission in London has held a high-profile virtual event to commemorate the historic maiden visit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the United Kingdom on Jan 8, 1972. );
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The event, titled ‘Bangabandhu & Britain: And the Historic 8 January,’ was attended by British ministers, Leader of the Opposition, eminent parliamentarians, senior members of the House of Lords, ambassadors, renowned British journalists and senior UK Foreign Office officials on Jan 9.
They paid homage to Bangabandhu and recalled his special relationship with the British government, its Conservative and Labour prime ministers in the early 1970s, and with the British-Bangladeshi expatriates.
Bangabandhu an inspiration to freedom lovers
Says UK minister
10th January, 2021 10:19:56
British Foreign and Development Office (FCDO) Minister for South Asia and Commonwealth Lord Tariq Ahmed has said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bangabandhu is “an inspiration” not just to the Bengali community across the world but to many who fight for liberty and democracy, reports UNB.
He said Bangabandhu laid the foundation of a strong partnership and deep friendship that Bangladesh-UK has been enjoying in the past five decades since his maiden visit to the UK on 08 January 1972.
Lord Ahmed said that Bangabandhu’s founding vision of a democratic, secular and inclusive Bangladesh was an inspiring one; and the UK would remain a critical partner of Bangladesh seeking to support peace and prosperity for all its people led by the able leader of Bangabandhu, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.