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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the Bangladeshis living abroad to mobilise public opinion in favour of making Bangla as one of the official languages at the United Nations.
She made the call while inaugurating a three-day programme marking Language Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day 2012 held at the International Mother Language Institute in Dhaka.
Sheikh Hasina said the government was trying its best to make Bangla as one of the official languages at the United Nations and she herself had already placed a proposal to this end before the UN General Assembly.
She said International Mother Language Day “calls us all to become world citizens being respectful to all. By bearing this spirit, all countries and people of all languages will benefit. And this will lead to unity in diversity.”
“Whenever the Awami League government came to power, the Bangali nation received honour internationally, as it achieved success in every field, including economy, agriculture, education, and in poverty-alleviation.”
She said Bangladesh first placed formal proposal to Unesco in September 1999 to name February 21 as ‘International Mother Language Day’. Unesco then recognised February 21 as ‘International Mother Language Day’ on November 17, 1999 and through this February 21 has become the day for protecting the rights of languages of different ethnic people of the world.
The prime minister also said that the government has taken steps to turn the language institute into an international organisation where researches would be carried out as well as languages of different ethnic people of the world would be preserved.

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PM urges expats abroad to push for Bengali as UN language