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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Dhaka to vote for Palestine statehood bid: Hasina

United News of Bangladesh . New York


The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said Bangladesh would always stand by the Palestine people to establish an independent Palestine state.


‘If needed, we will vote for establishing Palestine State,’ she said in reply to a question at a ‘meet the press’ programme at the Bangladesh Mission office in New York on Saturday.


The Palestine president, Mahmoud Abbas, formally submitted a written statehood application to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, on September 23.


The prime minister said Bangladesh had always been with the people of Palestine to establish their rights.


She recalled that there was close relations between Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. ‘We had a very close family relation,’ she said.


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