Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has laid emphasis on the importance of "clear and unambiguous" interpretation of languages and expressions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In that context he said that some populist leaders used the pandemic as a "punching bag to ignite more nationalistic or sectarian firestorm of denial and division.
Whereas, Momen said, leaders like Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or former German Chancellor Angela Merkel “spoke the language of compassion, solidarity, responsibility and inclusion.”
He made the remarks in a video message at the two-day virtual event celebrating the International Mother Language Day themed "Language in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic" organized by Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur in collaboration with the Centre for Genocide Studies, Dhaka University and School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Taylor’s University, Malaysia that ended on Friday.
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