PM seeks global support for the prosecution of war criminals

She reminded her audience that the Pakistani troops and their collaborators in the then East Pakistan committed genocide, rape, arson and crimes against humanity across the land and that over three million people sacrificed their lives and a quarter of a million women were dishonoured during the nine-month war. Hasina said successful completion of the ongoing trials would purge the nation of the stigma it had been carrying for 42 years. She urged the world leaders to back the prosecutions of war criminals.
While talking about the post-2015 development agenda, she said, “we need to be united in agreeing on a common set of the development agenda that would fulfil our aspiration in building a just, prosperous and sustainable world where no person or nation is left behind.”

She expressed her pleasure for the opportunity to be among world leaders adopting the Millennium Declaration in 2000, in the review of the MDGs in 2010, and now in the transition from MDGs to the post-2015 Development Agenda. Highlighting the long-term economic perspective of Bangladesh, the Prime Minister said: "Our aim is to become a middle-income country and to realize our "Vision 2021", through setting up goals that match with the MDGs." "We have already met or are on the track to meet MDG-1, MDG- 2, MDG-3, MDG-4, MDG-5, and MDG-6. Poverty has been reduced from 56.6 percent in 1991 to below 26 percent now," she said.
Drawing attention of the global leaders to impending challenges due to climate change, she said a fifth of Bangladesh would submerge if the temperature rose by one degree Celsius which would lead to a meter rise in the sea level. Around 30 million people will be displaced as a result. Hasina reaffirmed her call for a legal regime to ensure social, cultural, and economic rehabilitation of the 'climate migrants' and a fast track funding mechanism for the Climate Change Fund for LDCs.
She urged the UN to declare 21st February as the "International Mother Language Day" as UNESCO did in 1999 and induct Bangla as one of its official languages thanking the UN for introducing Bangla website and a radio program and the UNDP for publishing its Asia Report in Bangla.
She gave her whole speech at the UNGA in Bangla, just like her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Prime Minister is expected to return Bangladesh on September 30.