UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that global peace has become far more challenging than in the past due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“With the advent of invisible enemies like the coronavirus, the rapid spread of technology, and the advancement of time, new elements of threat shave emerged,” she said.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the closing ceremony of ‘Exercise Front Runner of Peace-2021’ from her official residence Ganobhaban.
On the occasion of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
and the Golden Jubilee of Independence, a multinational exercise, organised by Bangladesh Army, was held at Bangabandhu Cantonment, Ghatail, Tangail from April 4-12.
Military members from India, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka along with their Bangladesh counter part participated in the exercise. Currently, Sheikh Hasina said, peacekeepers in UN peacekeeping missions have to deal with multidimensional and complex situations. “So, the number of peacekeepers’ deaths has is rising at an alarming rate.”
So far, she mentioned,158 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have died and 237 injured. “Time has come to equip peacekeepers with appropriate training and equipment to deal with the upcoming crises in UN peacekeeping operations.”
Hasina said the recent incidents that happened in UN peacekeeping missions were presented in ‘Exercise Front Runner of Peace’ so that the future peacekeepers may be trained well in making appropriate decisions to deal with such situations.
