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Speaker returns after joining HLPF in US

July 21, 2019 00:00:00


Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Choudhury returned home on Saturday from the USA after attending Parliamentary Forum at the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) and related meetings held in New York from July 13 to 18, reports BSS.

Dr Shirin joined as a discussant at a session "Growing Inequalities and Distrust in Government: Breaking the Cycle" at the UN Conference building on July 15, said a JS media release.

She also attended, as chief guest, a discussion meeting on SDGs organised by Permanent Mission of Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations.

Other member of the Bangladesh delegation is JS secretariat senior secretary Dr Md Zafar Ahmed Khan.


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