BD envoy to UK elected vice-chair of IMSO 26th Assembly
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK and the Permanent Representative to International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and International Portable Satellite Organisation (IMSO) Saida Muna Tasneem has been unanimously elected as the Vice-Chair of the 26th Assembly of IMSO for the biennial 2021-2022.
She was elected at the week-long Assembly held recently in London, said the High Commission on Monday, reviews UNB.
The Assembly is the top policy-building body of the 106-member International Portable Satellite Organisation, the only international organisation that oversees public satellite security and safety in maritime communication services supplied by mobile satellite communication systems.
Following her election, Huge Commissioner Tasneem pledged to operate closely with fellow IMSO member declares towards enhancing global mobile satellite conversation systems as well as effective execution of Global Maritime Safety and Security System protocols like the Long Vary Identification and Monitoring of Ships and Safety of Life at Ocean Conventions.
“As a Bay of Bengal maritime country guided by Primary Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visionary maritime safety initiatives including launching of the Bangabandhu-1 Satellite, I would, within my two-year tenure, especially pursue greater security and safety of mobile satellite interaction devices for sustainable maritime safeness”, she said.
Earlier Bangladesh Excessive Commissioner to the UK and the Commonwealth Saida Muna Tasneem was likewise unanimously elected as an associate of the Commonwealth Basis
Grants Committee for the word 2020-2021.
The Large Commissioner said “Bangladesh since its membership of the Commonwealth in 1973 beneath the charismatic leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is committed to enhancing its engagements and leadership with all-important policy-making bodies of the Commonwealth, like the Commonwealth Foundation that provides Commonwealth grants for financing of socioeconomic developments projects in Commonwealth countries.
Earlier, Bangladesh was successfully elected and served mainly because the member of the Commonwealth Executive Committee for the word 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 and at the Commonwealth (NGOs)Accreditation Committee for the word 2019-2020.
The Commonwealth Foundation is among Commonwealth’s three principal agencies alongside the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth of Learning.
Within Bangladesh’s sustained leadership bids at the Commonwealth, in October 2020 Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr Abdul Momen was elected as Chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on Guyana.
