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UN Day today

Staff Correspondent
United Nation* Day will be observed tn Bangladesh and elsewhere tn the world today (Thursday). The anniversary of the entry Into force of th* United Nation* Charter — 24 October 1945 — ha* been celebrated as United Nation* Dey •Ince 1948.
In Bangladesh the United Nations system and various non-governmental organisation* have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the Day
The United Nations Association of Bangladesh (UNAB) will hold a commemorative function at 5 pm at Hotel Purbani. Finance Minister Sai fur Rahman will attend the function a* chief guest. State Minister for Women Affairs and Social Welfare Begum Sarwarl Rahman will be special guest Acting Foreign Secretary Ambassador Farooq Sobhan and UNDP Resident Representative Charles Larsimont will attend as guest speakers. UNAB President Professor M Innas All will preside.
Earlier on the Day, Lions Club of Dhaka Central in cooperation with United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) will organise a discussion meeting at 9 am at UNIC auditorium at House 25, Road 11, Dhan-mondi. Dhaka. Speaker of the Jatlya Sangsad (Parliament) Sheikh .Razzaque All will attend the function as chief guest. UNIDO Country Director OL Narasimhan and Lions District Governor Ln Jalal Ahmed will speak as special guests.
The day is also observed as World Development Information Day, which the General Assembly set up in 1972, to draw the attention of world opinion to development problems and the necessity of strengthening international co-operation for their solutions.
The General Assembly in
1978 also called for the global observance of Disarmament Week from October 24 to October 30 to enable world community to consider seriously various issues of disarmament and Its relationships with economic and social development.
The United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, whose term of office is drawing to a close, tn a message said the ’’United Nations has become the rallying point for the effort to establish a new order of peace and Justice that would promote human rights and eradicate poverty."
"At this moment, we stand at a dellcdte point In the search for such an order," be said and appealed to leaders of peoples to ensure the freedoms recently gained and energies newly-released are devoted to ends most conducive to human welfare.
William H Draper IH. Administrator, United Nations Dcvclopmpnt Programme, in a statement on the day outlined commitment to the UN Charter, particularly in "thl| dignity and worth of the hu* man person, in the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small."
"UNDP is committed to the inclusion of women in all our priority programmes on poverty alleviation and grassroots participation, environment and natural resources management, technological cooperation among developing countries, and transfer and adaptation of technology," he added.
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