Bangladesh will host a two-day international conference on peace and education in December this year to promote peace and prosperity in South Asia, the organisers said on Monday.
South Asian Fraternity (Bangladesh Chapter) will organise the conference which is likely to begin on December 14, convenor of SAF, Humayun Kabir Hiru, announced at a press briefing held at National Press Club.
Top luminaries in different fields like former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, Nobel laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus, former Indian prime minister
IK Gujral, noted Indian writer and human rights activist Mahasweta Devi and eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar are likely to be invited to address the moot.
Hiru also informed that a seven-member international lobbying group has been formed to do the groundwork for the conference.
South Asian Fraternity was established in 1990 to foster good neighbourly relations among countries of South Asia through promoting people to people contacts.
Satya Paul, secretary general of South Asian Fraternity, among
others, was present at the briefing.
Source : New Age
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