"Bangladesh PM's stake in COP26 is crucial"

Live Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's role in  upcoming COP26 as Climate vulnerable Forum's chair (CVF) would be crucial  while the summit is expected to set the global course in negating the climate  change impacts, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said here today.

"Bangladesh, as the president of CVF, have been playing a strong role while honarouble Prime Minister will chair a 'CVF-COP26 Leaders dialogue' on the  conference sidelines (as well)," Momen told a media briefing. The Bangladesh premier is scheduled to leave for the UK on Sunday to join  the COP26 where, Momen said, she would address the high-level meeting of  COP26 on November 1 in Glasgow.

The summit's main host British Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier said  the event must be a "turning point for humanity" while Sheikh Hasina would  hold an exclusive meeting with him coinciding with the COP26 dialogue. 

According to Momen on the next day she was scheduled to join a meeting  titled 'Action and Solidarity-the critical decade' on the British premier's  invitation and another discussion titled 'Women and Climate'.

The Premier will highlight the universal ideals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well as her own vision on the importance  of universal, quality and science-based education and healthy and inclusive  culture in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). 

 

 Dhaka, 30 October (campuslive24.com)//BSC

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