Foreign diplomats and dignitaries have remembered Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman in the Netherlands and paid tributes to him.
They attended in the first ever three-day art exhibition on Bangabandhu titled ‘Bangabandhu: In Remembrance at the Embassy of Bangladesh, said the Embassy on Saturday.
Ambassadors of India, Republic of Korea, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Kosovo, Republic of Georgia and Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See as well as representatives from the Embassy of United States, Spain, Russian Federation, Panama and Austria were present in the inaugural ceremony.
Chairperson of the Board of Trust Fund Victims Felippe Micheleni, and other TFV Board Members and representatives from International Organizations were also in attendance.
Former Deputy Mayor of The Hague Rabin Baldewsingh and Carlos J. Arguello Gomez, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in the Netherlands were the guest of honor of the ceremony and joined Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal in inaugurating the art exhibition ceremonially.
A total of 30 art works of artists from Bangladesh, including art works of celebrated artists Quayyum Chowdhury, Rafiqun Nabi, Sarbori Roy Choudhury, Murtaja Baseer, Abdus Sattar and Jamal Ahmed being exhibited by the Embassy of Bangladesh in The Hague in cooperation with Buriganga Arts and Crafts, Dhaka.
Ambassador of India to the Netherlands Vanu Rajamony stated Bangabandhu as the greatest Bengali of all time and shared his own memory of “Joy Bangla” moment in his life when he heard, in his own ear, the news of Bangladesh’s independence on 16 December 1971 when he was a boy of 11 years.
Terming Bangabandhu’s assassination as history’s one of the darkest chapter, he recalled the days of Bangabandhu’s two remaining daughters in India after the assassination of Bangabandhu.
