Hasina hails Keir

Staff Reporter  :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has conveyed her heartiest congratulations to the newly elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom Keir Starmer for his landslide victory.

“This unequivocal mandate clearly testifies to the trust and confidence of the British people in your leadership to take your country to newer heights of progress and prosperity and promote peace globally,” she wrote in a letter issued on Friday.

“My heartiest congratulations and that of the Government and the people of Bangladesh on your party’s historic victory in the 4th of July elections in the United Kingdom and your assumption of office as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” she said.

Reminding the historic relation, Sheikh Hasina said, “I take this opportunity to reminisce Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his party Awami League’s enduring friendship with the Labour Party and its iconic leaders like Sir Harold Wilson, Thomas Williams KC and Lord Peter Shore, during our glorious War of Liberation in 1971 that indeed shaped the Bangladesh-UK relations founded on our common values of democracy, secularism, and inclusive and progressive aspirations.”

She further said that Bangladesh government’s desire to work with Labour government in the upcoming days to bolster the bilateral relations.

“My Government looks forward to working closely with the Labour Government under your able stewardship in further strengthening our long-standing political, economic, climate, and strategic partnerships in the mutual interest of our two Commonwealth nations,” she said.

“Most importantly, together we would continue to harness the invaluable contributions of more than 700,000 vibrant and enterprising Bangladeshi-British Diaspora to the common good of our two nations,” she continued.

She concluded her letter wishing Keir Starmer the very best of health, happiness, and success in this high responsibility and peace, progress, and prosperity to the friendly people of the United Kingdom.