Bangladesh Permanent Representative to UN Agencies and other International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith has presented credentials to United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Director General (DG) LI Yong.
During the credential presentation ceremony, held at UNIDO Headquarters in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday, Li Yong reiterated UNIDO’s strong commitment to support Bangladesh to reach the next level of industrial development.
Recalling his visit to Dhaka and fruitful meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2017, the DG highly lauded Bangladesh’s exemplary economic development in recent years and offered all sorts of cooperation from UNIDO.
The DG also observed that Bangladesh can be included in the Programme for Country Partnership (PCP) of UNIDO and the existing Country Programme can be connected to the PCP.
The Bangladesh envoy urged UNIDO for extending its cooperation to Bangladesh in the field of blue economy, climate change, waste management, food security, SDGs implementation as well as the issues on COVID-19 (challenges & opportunities).
Muhith accepted the proposal from the DG for the cooperation in the field of 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and informed him that Bangladesh had already started the implementation of the 4IR innovations under it’s ‘Digital Bangladesh’ initiative.
He also suggested the DG to take waste management and waste to energy projects in Bangladesh involving the World Bank for financing.
