Allow UN to play a greater role: Hasina to world leaders

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged Wednesday the world leaders to take more effective steps for stopping wars and conflicts in different parts of world and allow the UN to play a greater role in establishing global peace.
Addressing a commemorative event marking the 40th anniversary of Bangladesh's historic admission to the United Nations held in the city, she also urged the world leaders to further enhance the capacity of the United Nations to effectively respond to wars, conflicts and armed violence, according to a news agency.
Affirming that Bangladesh is in the frontline of a movement for ending the culture of impunity to perpetrators of crimes against humanity, she said, “In principle, we’re in the frontline of a movement to ensure the trial of crimes against humanity and remove the culture of impunity.”
On this day in 1974, Bangladesh earned its membership at the UN as an independent and sovereign State.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UN Country Team Bangladesh jointly organised the programme.  
Observing that wars and violence create a humanitarian crisis, the Prime Minister called for taking effective steps to stop such crises now prevailing in different parts of the world.
Hasina also strongly condemned the recent Israeli barbaric attacks on Palestinians and indiscriminate killing of women and children in Gaza and expressed her full solidarity with the people of Palestine.