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Dhaka: Foreign Minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman is set to assume the presidency of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 8.
According to sources, the 81st session of the UN General Assembly will formally begin on September 8, while the high-level general debate will commence on September 22 with speeches by heads of state and government. Foreign Minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman will preside over the session.
Earlier, on June 2, representatives of UN member states elected him president of the 81st UNGA session through a secret ballot at the UN headquarters in New York.
He defeated Andreas S. Kakouris, the special envoy of the Foreign Minister of Cyprus, by a margin of eight votes.
In 1986, Bangladesh’s former foreign secretary and politician Humayun Rashid Choudhury served as president of the 41st session of the UN General Assembly.
Four decades later, another Bangladeshi diplomat is set to take on the important responsibility of presiding over the UN General Assembly, the world’s largest multilateral forum.
