Bangladeshi to lead UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
Bangladeshi to lead UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
Staff Correspondent
The United Nations is going to appoint a major general from Bangladesh Army as the commander of its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.
Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry M Idris Ali said this to reporters at the Zia International Airport on his arrival after a 14-day official visit to the peacekeeping missions in the African states of Ivory Coast and Congo.
A number of members of Bangladesh armed forces and police are engaged in the UN missions there. Talking to the press, Idris Ali also pointed out that there are some problems Bangladeshi peacekeepers are facing abroad.
The standing committee will submit recommendations to the government in this regard like taking initiatives to provide Bangladeshi soldiers with cheap phone call rates for talking to their relatives back in the country and chartering aircraft to fly them home on annual holidays, he said.
The Awami League lawmaker led a six-member delegation to Ivory Coast and Congo to witness the operational and administrative duties of Bangladesh contingent deployed there. The team also visited various military installations and called on high officials of the UN peacekeeping operations.
Many think that such visits to UN peace mission areas will enhance the morale of Bangladeshi troops and help make them more dutiful.
Idris Ali told reporters that the UN would increase participation of Bangladeshi soldiers in its peacekeeping missions in the two countries.
Bangladesh is the second highest contributor to UN's peacekeeping missions in terms of number of peacekeepers. The United States secured the number one position in terms of financial contributions.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with heads of 10 other countries contributing peacekeepers to the missions to a meeting in New York on September 23 where they exchanged views and experiences on UN peacekeeping operations across the world.
Bangladeshi to lead UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast
Staff Correspondent
The United Nations is going to appoint a major general from Bangladesh Army as the commander of its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.
Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry M Idris Ali said this to reporters at the Zia International Airport on his arrival after a 14-day official visit to the peacekeeping missions in the African states of Ivory Coast and Congo.
A number of members of Bangladesh armed forces and police are engaged in the UN missions there. Talking to the press, Idris Ali also pointed out that there are some problems Bangladeshi peacekeepers are facing abroad.
The standing committee will submit recommendations to the government in this regard like taking initiatives to provide Bangladeshi soldiers with cheap phone call rates for talking to their relatives back in the country and chartering aircraft to fly them home on annual holidays, he said.
The Awami League lawmaker led a six-member delegation to Ivory Coast and Congo to witness the operational and administrative duties of Bangladesh contingent deployed there. The team also visited various military installations and called on high officials of the UN peacekeeping operations.
Many think that such visits to UN peace mission areas will enhance the morale of Bangladeshi troops and help make them more dutiful.
Idris Ali told reporters that the UN would increase participation of Bangladeshi soldiers in its peacekeeping missions in the two countries.
Bangladesh is the second highest contributor to UN's peacekeeping missions in terms of number of peacekeepers. The United States secured the number one position in terms of financial contributions.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with heads of 10 other countries contributing peacekeepers to the missions to a meeting in New York on September 23 where they exchanged views and experiences on UN peacekeeping operations across the world.
. Keep up the world peace brothers....
