Staff Reporter :
The contractual appointment of Masud Bin Momen, who had been holding office as Foreign Secretary, has been canceled before completing his tenure this year.
Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain confirmed it to the media on Sunday.
The contractual appointment of Momen was set to be ended in December this year. He was given a plain farewell.
Masud was appointed as the 26th Foreign Secretary in December 31, 2019.
He was set to go for retirement on December 2022, but the then Awami League government again appointed him on contractual basis for two more years.
As a career diplomat, Ambassador Masud has long been serving in different capacities at the Headquarters and Bangladesh’s Missions abroad.
Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary, he had been Bangladesh’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2015. Before that, he served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Japan from 2012 to 2015.
He also served as Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and International Fund for Agricultural Development from 2008 to 2012.
Ambassador Masud served at the Headquarters in different capacities. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka and was responsible for matters related to South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Human Rights and the United Nations.
Ambassador Masud also served as a First Secretary and Counsellor at Bangladesh High Commission, Islamabad from 1996 to1998. Prior to that, he served at Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.
Ambassador Masud joined at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh as an Assistant Secretary in 1988. He belongs to the Bangladesh Civil Service (Foreign Affairs) 1985 Batch.