UK for strengthening bond with Bangladesh in subsequent 50yrs

British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson on Friday stated the United Kingdom (UK) seems forward to bolster bonds of kinship and way of life with Bangladesh inside the next 50 years and beyond.

“Modern links among the United Kingdom and Bangladesh encompass change and funding … We proportion a mutual vision of a contemporary 21st century partnership certain via robust ancient ties,” he said in a message marking the United Kingdom-Bangladesh 50-yr anniversary of diplomatic ties.  

The envoy stated, nowadays, the world looks with admiration at what Bangladesh has achieved in its first 1/2 century, an RMG powerhouse, a main contributor to peace and safety, particularly as a company of troops to UN peacekeeping missions, and one of the most influential global voices on climate exchange that reacted at COP26 in Glasgow.

“I am glad to reflect on Bangladesh’s transformation from ‘one of the international’s poorest nations’ into ‘one of the global's fastest-developing economies’ and the United Kingdom’s element in that story,” he stated.  

The excessive commissioner additionally lauded the British Bangladeshi contribution to the United Kingdom National Health Service, schooling, development, defence, way of life, cricket and curry.   

“On these days, 50 years ago, the United Kingdom and Bangladesh installed our diplomatic dating …. The UK is proud to be a chum of Bangladesh through all this,” he wrote inside the message.

On behalf of the UK, the envoy congratulated the humans and the authorities of Bangladesh on this historic anniversary of a new generation of Brit Bangla Bondhon.

He stated earlier than Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman set foot in his liberated place of origin, his historical experience to the United Kingdom in January 1972 and his meeting with UK PM Edward Heath forged a new friendship and expanded the popularity of Bangladesh as an impartial nation.

“This historic moment advocated Commonwealth international locations to understand Bangladesh,” he stated.

Dickson recalled the British government’s humanitarian relief contributions to a rising Bangladesh earlier than, at some stage in and after the liberation warfare.

In reality, he stated the United Kingdom became one in all the most important donors for humanitarian alleviation support to the people of Bangladesh in 1971, reflecting sturdy public assist inside the UK for the liberation reason. “All this laid the principles for a completely unique and lasting relationship between the UK and Bangladesh,” he brought.

With the established order of a British High Commission in Dhaka, he stated, the then UK Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home visited Bangladesh in 1972.

Since then, the UK has been a devoted companion of this u . S . In research, fitness services and network development, catastrophe risk discount, poverty comfort, improving training, growing life expectancy for women and kids, and womens’ empowerment.

“And all this has helped the usa’s first-rate development during the last 50 years,” said the envoy.

The country has moved forward, a role version of tremendous transformation even as persevering with to grapple with political and governance challenges as a colourful, independent nation, examine the message.  

The excessive commissioner stated many Bangladeshis made the UK their domestic, and after 5 a long time, with round 600,000 humans of Bangladeshi beginning dwelling within the UK, the connection between the British and Bangladeshi peoples is deeper and stronger than ever.

The envoy additionally recalled the go to of Queen Elizabeth II in Bangladesh in 1983 as well as several Royal own family contributors inclusive of Prince of Wales, Princess Royal and Prime Ministers together with John Major, Tony Blair and David Cameron in time to time.

“Through this time, the connection has deepened, reflecting eager UK hobby as Bangladesh has pursued recuperation from poverty, floods, and devastating cyclones,” he said.