Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has called for greater international efforts to ensure safety and security of the peacekeepers, including by embedding emergency preparedness in the mandate setting.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has reiterated the importance of ensuring safety and security of the peacekeepers.

She identified universal and affordable access to vaccines, financing SDGs gap, ending the growing trends of poverty and inequality, supporting the migrant workers, reversing the falling trend of export earnings, ensuring the benefits of digitisation to all, and addressing climate and biodiversity emergencies as the top priorities of Bangladesh. She was addressing the General Debate of the Second Committee at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. In the face of the extraordinary situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the committee decided to centre it

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has underscored the need to have close partnership at the local, bilateral, regional and international levels to deal with the trans-border and trans-national nature of the crime like trafficking. "Bangladesh has a zero tolerance policy against trafficking in persons", she said while speaking at the UN High Level Virtual Event for the Observance of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) on Thursday.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has highlighted the inter-religious harmony prevailing in Bangladesh.