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Bangladesh permanent representative presents credentials to DG of IAEA

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31 August, 2020, 11:50 am
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Bangladesh permanent representative presents credentials to DG of IAEA

While accepting the credentials, the DG of IAEA highly praised Bangladesh’s sustained progress in the development of nuclear science, technology and applications and reiterated IAEA’s strong commitment to continue to support Bangladesh to take the country’s strength and capacity to a new height in this area

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Last modified: 31 August, 2020, 11:57 am
Bangladesh permanent representative presents credentials to DG of IAEA

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to UN Agencies and other International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith presented his credentials to the Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi on August 28 at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

While accepting the credentials, the Director General (DG) of IAEA highly praised Bangladesh's sustained progress in the development of nuclear science, technology and applications and reiterated IAEA's strong commitment to continue to support Bangladesh to take the country's strength and capacity to a new height in this area.

He appreciated Bangladesh's achievements in exceeding the IAEA's expectations regarding the compliance with the nuclear safety, security and safeguard issues. The Director General categorically mentioned that IAEA considers Bangladesh as a special country, which the Agency is associated within the implementation of the country's nuclear energy programme, among others. The IAEA chief sought strong political support from the government of Bangladesh in its endeavours to implementing its mandates.

Ambassador Muhith thanked the Director General for accepting his credentials and appreciated the leadership of the DG in taking IAEA onto a higher trajectory in terms of accomplishments in the areas of, inter alia, safety and security, science and technology and safeguard and verification, which the Agency and the member countries attaches utmost importance to.

While updating the DG of the impressive progress of implementation of Bangladesh's first Nuclear Power Plant in Rooppur, the Ambassador deeply appreciated the ongoing existing excellent cooperation between Bangladesh and the IAEAwhich resulted in undertaking a series of technical cooperation projects in the areas of energy, health, food security & safety, environment contributing to the development of Bangladesh including the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before 2030. He requested for extending the purview of the cooperation in the field of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) as a technique to contain the Aedes mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue fever.

Ambassador Muhith also thanked the Agency and the Director General for providing instantaneous support of the RT-PCR machine, diagnostic kit and safety equipment forcapacity building to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. He reiterated his request to continue to put emphasis on the technical cooperation projects already included in the Country Program Framework, which has greater catalytic impact on the economic development of Bangladesh. The Ambassador reiterated Bangladesh support for multilateralism in general and IAEA in particular and expressed hope that IAEA will be able to contribute in finding innovative ideas and solutions for mankind to progress and prosper in the Covid-19 induced "new normal."

Bangladesh Permanent Representative / IAEA

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