24/10/2024
CHIEF ADVISER GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH
24 October 2024
On this United Nations Day, on behalf of the people of Bangladesh, I extend our cordial felicitations to all women and men of the United Nations family the world over and reaffirm our commitment to the ideals of the UN Charter.
For eight decades now, the United Nations has been fostering peace, safeguarding human rights, and promoting sustainable development. In a time marked by unprecedented challenges- climate change, conflicts, inequalities - the delivering on the UN's mandate is more critical than ever. Emerging issues like responsible use of AI as also ensuring beneficial access to technologies across nations, call for enhanced role of the UN system in ensuring peace, stability and harmony, for all.
Bangladesh draws satisfaction over its active partnership with the UN system, particularly as the third largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping operations. Our commitment to peace, justice, and equality remains rooted in our national ethos, as seen in our people's ongoing quest for justice, most recently demonstrated in the People's Revolution led by our students and youth.
As a people, we remain firmly committed to multilateralism. Be it sustainable development or, trade or, addressing climate crisis, vulnerable countries like Bangladesh and the global South needs rule-based multilateral system. We call for reforming the UN to make it more inclusive, transparent and responsive to deliver to the aspirations of all people in an evolving global landscape.
Within this context, we cannot ignore the people who continues to be persecuted, uprooted and subjected to gross violations of human rights in the Rakhine State (Myanmar) or Gaza. No people regardless of their number or identity is expandable. Bangladesh therefore calls for urgent attention to the Rohingya crisis, including convening of an international conference to find sustainable solution to the crisis and ensuring safe and dignified return of the Rohingya people to Myanmar. In similar vein, Bangladesh calls for decisive UN action to protect the civilian children, women and men; and dialogue towards securing peace in Gaza and Lebanon and the wider region.
On this Day, Bangladesh renews its commitment to work with the international community to build a more just, peaceful, and equitable world, in our 'shared interests'.
Together, we must redeem our pledge to realize dignity and rights for everyone.
Professor Muhammad Yunus
