Bangladesh envoy presents credentials to UNIDO’s DG

Bangladesh Permanent Representative to UN Agencies and other International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith has presented his credentials to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Director General (DG) Mr. LI Yong.

Throughout the credential presentation ceremony, taken at UNIDO Headquarters in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday, Li Yong repeated UNIDO’s strong commitment to supporting Bangladesh to reach the next level of industrial development.

Remembering his visit to Dhaka and fruitful meeting with PM Sheikh Hasina in 2017, the DG LI Yong extremely lauded Bangladesh’s exemplary economic development in recent years and offered all sorts of cooperation from UNIDO.

LI Yong also mentioned that Bangladesh can be involved in the Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) of UNIDO and the current Country Programme can be attached to the PCP.

The Bangladesh envoy Muhammad Abdul Muhith proposed UNIDO for extending its cooperation to Bangladesh in the field of the blue economy, climate change, waste management, food security, SDGs implementation as well as the issues on COVID-19.

Muhith accepted the proposal from LI Yong for the cooperation in the field of 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and informed him that Bangladesh had already started the implementation of the 4IR innovations under it’s ‘Digital Bangladesh’ initiative.

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