DHAKA, 05 February 2022, (TON): British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson said “British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson said “the United Kingdom looks forward to strengthening bonds with Bangladesh in the next 50 years and beyond.”

He said in a message “modern links between the UK and Bangladesh include trade and investment. We share a mutual vision of a modern 21st-century partnership bound by strong historical ties.”

The envoy said the world looks with admiration today at what Bangladesh has achieved in its first half-century, an RMG powerhouse, a leading contributor to peace and security, especially as a provider of troops to UN peacekeeping missions, and one of the most influential global voices on climate change that reacted at COP26 in Glasgow.

He said “I am happy to reflect on Bangladesh’s transformation from ‘one of the world’s poorest countries’ into ‘one of the world's fastest-growing economies’ and the UK’s part in that story.” 

The high commissioner also lauded the British Bangladeshi contribution to the UK National Health Service, education, development, defence, culture, cricket and curry.