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Climate change issue: Role of Hasina in CHOGM lauded

UNB, Port of Spain
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was given special honour by international leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)'2009 held on November 27-29 in Port of Spain.
The local media also carried special reports on Sheikh Hasina's political career and her arrival in the Port of Spain as the only female head of government among many heads of government and State and official representatives from over 50 countries.
The global leaders, particularly the Prime Ministers and Presidents from the underdeveloped and developing countries, highly praised Sheikh Hasina for her strong voice in international forums about the impacts of climate change on agriculture, economy, geography and bio diversity of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
During the CHOGM events, Sheikh Hasina exchanged pleasantries with many global leaders, including British Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
1 Iosina also had bilateral talks separately with Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato Sri Mohd Najib bin Tim Hall Abdul Razak. Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong and Crown Prince of Brunei Darussalam Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah on the sidelines of the CHOGM'2009.
The delegation members accompanying the prime minister told UNB that all the leaders thanked the Bangladesh Prime Minister for her statements in the international summits on climate change and food security.
The Prime Ministers and Presidents of different countries told Sheikh Hasina that she by providing latest information and data in die international summit on climate change impacts has been able to make the developed world understand about the disastrous impacts of global warming on the economies of the poor countries.
They also welcomed Sheikh Hasina's government's various steps for women empowerment and expressed hope that she with her Vision 2021 will be able to turn Bangladesh into a modern and developed country.
Meanwhile, the newspapers in
Trinidad and Tobago ran various reports on Sheikh I Iosina's arrival and her events in the CHOGM'2009.
On Sheikh Hasina's arrival, a leading newspaper in Port of Spain, I he Trinidad Guardian', wrote 'Welcome Madam PM’.
Hie same daily published a special report on Sheikh Hasina ahead of her participation in the CHOGM' 2009. It in its report the daily said, 'lather of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with the members of his family was martyred on the fateful night of August 15, 1975. Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana were the only survivors as they were in West Germany at that time."
The Daily wrote. “Her quest for peace has taken her to India and Pakistan to talk to the leaders of these two countries soon after the nuclear test urging reduction of tension in the region."
Besides, it wrote, "Prime Minister Hasina has been a strong advocate for the Culture of Peace at global, regional and national levels.”
After Sheikh Hasina's arrival in Port of Spain, the daily published a full-page picture of her on its back page.