BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh High Commissioner (HC) to the United Kingdom Saida Muna Tasneem on Wednesday presented her credentials to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace.
Earlier, marshal of the diplomatic corps Alistair Harrison in his ceremonial attire came to the High Commission in Queens’ Gate to pick up and escort the high commissioner in a Royal Horse Carriage with two escorting Royal Horse Guards to the credential ceremony at the Buckingham Palace, a press release said here on Thursday.
Thousands of tourists greeted the high commissioner outside the palace and throughout the horse carriage route took photographs, it added.
Permanent under Secretary and Head of the British Diplomatic Service Sir Simon McDonald, Assistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps and a senior official of the Royal Protocol welcomed the High Commissioner at the Grand Entrance of the Buckingham Palace.
Having escorted the High Commissioner to the designated credential place, Marshal of Her Majesty introduced the High Commissioner and her spouse Tauhidul I Chaudhury to Her Majesty the Queen.
The High Commissioner then formally presented the Letters of her Credence and the Letter of Recall of her predecessor to the Queen.
She conveyed the warm greetings of President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the Queen and wished her good health, long life and prosperity of the friendly people of the UK.
Reminiscing the visits of the Queen to Dhaka in 1961 and to independent Bangladesh in 1983, the High Commissioner reaffirmed the high esteem and admiration which the people of Bangladesh still hold in their hearts for the Queen and praised her six decades of leadership as the Head of the 53-nation Commonwealth.
She also recalled the support of the government and the people of UK during the War of Liberation in 1971 and the warm reception of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in London by the then British Prime Minister and the people on 8 January, 1972 on his way back to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh High Commissioner (HC) to the United Kingdom Saida Muna Tasneem on Wednesday presented her credentials to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace.
Earlier, marshal of the diplomatic corps Alistair Harrison in his ceremonial attire came to the High Commission in Queens’ Gate to pick up and escort the high commissioner in a Royal Horse Carriage with two escorting Royal Horse Guards to the credential ceremony at the Buckingham Palace, a press release said here on Thursday.
Thousands of tourists greeted the high commissioner outside the palace and throughout the horse carriage route took photographs, it added.
Permanent under Secretary and Head of the British Diplomatic Service Sir Simon McDonald, Assistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps and a senior official of the Royal Protocol welcomed the High Commissioner at the Grand Entrance of the Buckingham Palace.
Having escorted the High Commissioner to the designated credential place, Marshal of Her Majesty introduced the High Commissioner and her spouse Tauhidul I Chaudhury to Her Majesty the Queen.
The High Commissioner then formally presented the Letters of her Credence and the Letter of Recall of her predecessor to the Queen.
She conveyed the warm greetings of President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the Queen and wished her good health, long life and prosperity of the friendly people of the UK.
Reminiscing the visits of the Queen to Dhaka in 1961 and to independent Bangladesh in 1983, the High Commissioner reaffirmed the high esteem and admiration which the people of Bangladesh still hold in their hearts for the Queen and praised her six decades of leadership as the Head of the 53-nation Commonwealth.
She also recalled the support of the government and the people of UK during the War of Liberation in 1971 and the warm reception of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in London by the then British Prime Minister and the people on 8 January, 1972 on his way back to Bangladesh.
