Bogota commends Dhaka's progress in cutting poverty
Saturday, 28 June 2008
President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Vetez has commended the progress of Bangladesh in alleviating poverty and micro-credit programmes, saying Bogota would like to benefit from Dhaka's experience, reports BSS.
President Uribe said this during an interaction with newly accredited Bangladesh Ambassador Humayun Kabir following his presentation of credentials at the Narino Palace in Bogota on June 25, according to a message received in Dhaka Friday.
Ambassador Kabir, who is Bangladesh's Ambassador to the USA, is concurrently accredited to Columbia.
The Columbian President said being inspired by the experience of Bangladesh, his government has already undertaken a number of micro-credit schemes to help the poor.
Concurring with President Uribe, Ambassador Kabir said micro-credit has established Bangladesh as a model to fight poverty in a creative way.
He said the micro-credit programme not only benefited around 18 million people in Bangladesh, mostly women, but also helped improve literacy and health care and empower women.
As President Uribe expressed his sympathy for the victims of cyclone Sidr, the Bangladesh envoy thanked him and said a massive pre-disaster evacuation and post-disaster relief and rehabilitation programmes helped reduce causalities of Sidr.
He informed the President about disaster management strategies developed and implemented by Bangladesh during the last three decades and said Bangladesh has been working with the international community to develop medium and long-term strategies to improve its disaster management capacity.
The ambassador, however, underscored the urgency of international attention and action to deal with the climate change issues, which have made the natural disasters more frequent and devastating in Bangladesh.
President Uribe said this during an interaction with newly accredited Bangladesh Ambassador Humayun Kabir following his presentation of credentials at the Narino Palace in Bogota on June 25, according to a message received in Dhaka Friday.
Ambassador Kabir, who is Bangladesh's Ambassador to the USA, is concurrently accredited to Columbia.
The Columbian President said being inspired by the experience of Bangladesh, his government has already undertaken a number of micro-credit schemes to help the poor.
Concurring with President Uribe, Ambassador Kabir said micro-credit has established Bangladesh as a model to fight poverty in a creative way.
He said the micro-credit programme not only benefited around 18 million people in Bangladesh, mostly women, but also helped improve literacy and health care and empower women.
As President Uribe expressed his sympathy for the victims of cyclone Sidr, the Bangladesh envoy thanked him and said a massive pre-disaster evacuation and post-disaster relief and rehabilitation programmes helped reduce causalities of Sidr.
He informed the President about disaster management strategies developed and implemented by Bangladesh during the last three decades and said Bangladesh has been working with the international community to develop medium and long-term strategies to improve its disaster management capacity.
The ambassador, however, underscored the urgency of international attention and action to deal with the climate change issues, which have made the natural disasters more frequent and devastating in Bangladesh.