The Bangladesh envoy in Colombo has sought Sri Lankan collaboration in global apparel supply chain and logistics. The High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah described Bangladesh’s vision and approach to multi-modal connectivity and outreach to South Asian region and beyond while addressing a special event on Bangladesh’s Journey in Development: Moving beyond LDC; and Perspectives on Regionalism at University of Colombo.

The event, organised with the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Colombo University, commenced with a screening of a specially-tailored documentary highlighting key aspects of Bangladesh’s history, culture, geography and different facets of contemporary development.

In his 45-minute presentation, the high commissioner underlined inter alia the values and features of Bengali people and nationalism, people’s yearning for the values, Bangabandhu’s leadership in steering the War of Liberation. He summarised how Bangladesh’s development across the society and economy over the past four and half decades have come about in spite of various constraints and limitations.

The high commissioner also shared a number of Bangladesh’s developmental indigenous solutions and experience across sectors which are now replicated internationally.