BD ready to take leadership role in UN peacekeeping: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced Bangladesh is ready to take senior leadership role in peacekeeping both at the UN Headquarters and on the ground.
She suggested more advanced responsibilities for Bangladeshis in her address to the High-Level Summit on UN Peacekeeping at New York Friday.
It was a renewal of the call she made this past July in Dhaka when she had advocated the inclusion of Bangladesh in the decision-making process of the UN Peacekeeping Mission, according to a news agency.
The Bangladesh leader told her audience that peacekeeping was becoming “more complex, demanding and dangerous”.
And yet, keeping peace in the world had “evolved as a central pillar” of her nation’s foreign policy.
“With our longstanding experience in delivering Mission mandates, Bangladesh has constantly updated its deployment capabilities with evolving nature of peace support operations,” Hasina said.