Joy accepts South South award on behalf of PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son and her ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wajed Joy on Friday received the ‘South South Cooperation Visionary’ award on behalf of his mother. Prime Minister Hasina was nominated for the award for her government’s efforts to eradicate poverty and raising living standards, health services and social safety net across Bangladesh. Joy received the award from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy Yiping Zhou in Washington on Friday evening, the last day of 5-day Global South South Development Expo-2014. ‘This award is recognition of Bangladesh’s progress by utilising limited resources under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina,’ Joy said after receiving the award. ‘Organisation of American States’, and UN’s ‘South South Cooperation’ have been jointly organising the ‘Global South South Development Expo’ each year since 2008. South South Cooperation is a broad framework for collaboration among countries of the South in various sectors, according to bdnews24.com.