Foreign ministry observes Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day, Foreign ministry today observed the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bangalee of all time, in a befitting manner. Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in Pakistan jail.
Foreign ministry observes Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam along with the foreign ministry’s officials paid homage to the great leader by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation at the foreign ministry’s premises in the morning. After laying the wreath, they stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu, the architect of Bangladesh’s independence.
They also joined a discussion meeting on the historic Homecoming Day at the foreign ministry’s auditorium. In his speech, the foreign minister said Bangladesh is still following the dictum of its foreign policy – friendship to all, malice towards none – which was set by Bangabandhu. He recalled that the new born Bangladesh had received prompt recognition of many countries including the western powers and achieved membership of the United Nations due to the prudent foreign policy of Banga-bandhu.
Momen said the current government under the leadership of Banga-bandhu’s able daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working relentlessly to materialize Banga-bandhu’s dream of building Sonar Bangla – a prosperous developed Bangladesh. He urged all Bangladesh nationals living home and abroad to work sincerely to help implement Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s roadmap to turn Bangladesh into a developed country to realize the dream of Banga-bandhu.
Momen said the government wants to see the countrymen with Bangladeshi passports to be welcomed to any country without visa someday. “It’s not easy, but we have to work hard to materialize it,” said the foreign ministry. Shahriar Alam also called upon all to work sincerely to turn Bangladesh into Sonar Bangla in line with Bangabandhu’s dream by 2041. Before starting the discussion, the speech of Banga-bandhu that he delivered at the Racecourse Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) after arriving his beloved motherland on January 10 in 1972, was screened.
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