DHAKA – Bangladesh President Mohammad Abdul Hamid will open on Saturday the World Peace Conference – 2021, an event that will bring together global leaders, thinkers, writers, poets, peace activists and political personalities.
These people will come together to reaffirm the eternal message of peace through nations, societies, cultures, faiths, and traditions.
The conference is expected to look back on Bangladesh’s founding father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his vision and political struggle for peace.
Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, will attend the closing ceremony of the two-day event tomorrow as the chief guest.
“Bangladesh will get a special document through the adoption of the Dhaka Peace Declaration, which will act as a reference for Bangladesh’s all peace and security-related global initiatives to be taken in the future,” Bangladesh Foreign Minister, AK Abdul Momen, said.
He added that Bangladesh invited peace activists, writers, poets, singers and civil society members from different countries only to the conference.
Representatives from 50 countries will join the conference, both virtually and in person.
Around 59 participants from over 30 countries will join in person while around 40 guests virtually. Some of the guests will send video messages.
Bangladesh celebrates five decades of its peace-centric diplomacy, on the occasion of 50 years of its independence and Rahman’s birth centenary.
This diplomacy aims to promote sustainable development, fundamental rights and freedoms, social justice and inclusion.
The conference strives to deliver the message that peace has to be cherished in multifarious ways and that it will be sustainable only through social justice, equity and inclusiveness, the government of Bangladesh said in a statement ahead of the conference.
