Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to be the second head of Bangladesh government to address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in mother tongue today. In 1974, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Hasina, addressed the UNGA in Bangla as the prime minister of Bangladesh.

After that, former prime minister Khaleda Zia addressed a special UN session on children in Bangla in 1992. Hasina will be the third head of Bangladesh government to address any UN session in Bangla, said sources at the Prime Minister's Office. Hasina is scheduled to address the assembly as the eighth speaker between 8:00pm and 12:00am Bangladesh time.

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After 35 years, UNGA set for address in Bangla

bdnews: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to address the United Nations General Assembly in Bangla on Saturday. She will be only second head of Bangladesh government to address the Assembly in Bangla after her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who delivered his speech on Sep 23, 1974.

Foreign ministry sources say Hasina will, however, be the third head of government to address any UN session in Bangla. "Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be the second to address the general assembly in Bangla," Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former permanent representative to the UN, told bdnews24.com on Friday by telephone from Singapore.

"Then prime minister Khaleda Zia addressed the UN's special session on children in Bangla in 1992." "I translated her Bangla speech into English," said Chowdhury, a former foreign adviser to the 2007-08 caretaker government who was then the director general of the UN desk at the foreign ministry.

Foreign ministry sources say Sheikh Mujib had for the first time delivered his address as the prime minister in Bangla after Bangladesh got UN membership on Sep 17, 1974. Prime minister Hasina is set to address the General Assembly as the eighth speaker. She is scheduled to deliver her speech between 8:00pm and 12:00am BdST.