CM Shafi Sami (born 27 January 1942) is a Bangladeshi diplomat. He was selected as an adviser of the

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of Bangladesh under President

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and resigned after about a month with three other advisers

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, Akbar Ali Khan and Sultana Kamal. According to

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, they failed to discharge their constitutional responsibilities in the name of crackdown on corruption.

Early life

Sami was born on 27 January 1942 to Abdus Sami Chowdhury, a

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judge, and Roshan Ara Chowdhury, daughter of

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Abdul Hai Chowdhury. He belonged to the Chowdhuries of Bahadurpur, an Islamised branch of the Pal family of Panchakhanda. Sami passed his matriculation from Jamalpur Government College and intermediate exam from MC College in

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. He got his bachelor's and master's in physics from the

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in 1962 and 1963 respectively. He joined

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in 1966. Prior to that he also worked at

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(PAEC) and East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology for a while.

Career

Sami was the chief coordinator of the first

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summit and was selected the deputy general secretary of the summit. He also worked at the Bangladesh embassy in

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and as the Charge-de-affairs in Paris. He also worked in the

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as a residing representative. He served as Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Pakistan from February 1987 to October 1991. Sami became the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India in 1995 and remained there till 1999. During this time he played an important part in signing the Ganges Water Distribution Agreement and

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. After that, he served as the foreign secretary till 2001. During the caretaker government of 2001, he became the chief foreign secretary. Besides he was a member of the

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of the United Nations. He also led Bangladeshi correspondents in UN, NAM, OIC and other international conferences.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sami, Cm Shafi Living people People from Sylhet University of Dhaka alumni High commissioners of Bangladesh to India Permanent delegates of Bangladesh to UNESCO Advisers of caretaker governments of Bangladesh High commissioners of Bangladesh to Pakistan 1942 births