British high commissioner in Dhaka Stephen Evans on Monday said genuine students from Bangladesh were welcome to the United Kingdom for higher studies and research works.
He said this delivering a lecture titled 'UK-Bangladesh: 40 years of partnership' at a seminar at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban auditorium of Dhaka University.
History Department of the university arranged the seminar marking its 90 years of achievement.
The British high commissioner in his lecture said a huge number of students had come to the UK from different parts of the world every year to study and to conduct research.
'We also welcome genuine students from Bangladesh for their higher studies and researches in the UK,' he said.
Evans said since its inception in 1921, the Dhaka University campus has produced many international standard intellectuals and academicians, and also played an important role in the history of the sub-continent.
Addressing the seminar, DU vice-chancellor professor AAMS Arefin Siddique said Bangladesh and the United Kingdom share a very special, long-lasting and deeply harmonious relation of friendship.
He recalled the historic visit of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to London on January 9, 1972 just after his release from jail in Pakistan, on his way to Dhaka via Delhi by a Royal Air Force chartered flight.
Earlier, the British high commissioner and the DU vice-chancellor held talks at the latter's office, and discussed various issues of mutual interest.
The DU VC presented a crest to the British envoy, said a press release.
Source : New Age
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