Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations is the diplomatic mission of Bangladesh to the United Nation in New York City. It is under the

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History

Ambassador Rabab Fatima presented her credentials to the Secretary-General of the UN as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN on 6 December 2019. She replaced Ambassador Masud Bin Momen who had been in this position since 3 November 2015. Prior to Ambassador Masud Bin Momen, Dr.

AK Abdul Momen Abul Kalam Abdul Momen (born 23 August 1947), known as AK Abdul Momen, is a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat, and politician who served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), minister of foreign affairs from January 2019 to January 2024. He ...

was the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN from 2009 to 2015 . The mission observed

Pahela Baishakh Pohela Boishakh () is the Bengali New Year celebrated by the Bengalis, Bengali people worldwide and as a holiday on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April or 14 April (leap year) in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam ( ...

, Bengali New Year, in 2018 at its headquarters in New York City.

Key personnel

* Ambassador & Permanent Representative: Muhammad Abdul Muhith * Minister/Deputy Permanent Representative: Md. Monwar Hossain * Economic Minister: Md. Mahmudul Hasan, ndc * Defense Adviser: Brigadier General Md Sadequzzaman * First Secretary (Press): Md. Noorelahi Mina

References

{{Diplomatic missions in the United States * 1972 establishments in New York City

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