568 more foreign friends to be awarded
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said the government will award more foreign friends this year for their outstanding contribution to the War of Liberation in 1971.
Addressing a press conference at the ministry after the 20th meeting of the national committee on awarding foreign friends, she said the committee so far prepared a list of 568 and decided to award them in phases.
“We have first awarded former Prime Minister of India late Indira Gandhi posthumously on July 25, 2011 and in the second phase awarded another 73 individuals and international organisations on March 27 last,” Dipu Moni said.
“We consider the list of 568 is not a complete one, more names may be included as we continue finding foreign friends. It will be a continuous process to search our foreign friends to award them,” she said.
She said in the second phase of the award distribution held on March 27, the government invited a total of 110 individuals and international organisations. Of the invitees, 20 individuals directly received the award and 53 sent their representatives to receive the awards.
The recipients, who will not be able to come to Bangladesh to receive the award, will get their award in their respective countries through the Bangladesh mission, the foreign minister informed.
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