Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to address the United Nations General Assembly in Bangla on Saturday.

She will be only second head of Bangladesh government to address the Assembly in Bangla after her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who delivered his speech on Sep 24, 1974.

Foreign ministry sources say Hasina will, however, be the third head of government to address any UN session in Bangla.

"Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be the second to address the general assembly in Bangla," Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former permanent representative to the UN, told bdnews24.com on Friday by telephone from Singapore.

"Then prime minister Khaleda Zia addressed the UN's special session on children in Bangla in 1992."

"I translated her Bangla speech into English," said Chowdhury, a former foreign adviser to the 2007-08 caretaker government who was then the director general of the UN desk at the foreign ministry.

Foreign ministry sources say Sheikh Mujib had for the first time delivered his address as the prime minister in Bangla after Bangladesh got UN membership on Sep 17, 1974.

Prime minister Hasina is set to address the General Assembly as the eighth speaker.

She is scheduled to deliver her speech between 8:00pm and 12:00am BdST.

Source: bdnews24.com

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