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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.