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Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed addressing a
function at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in
the city marking the United Nations Day on Wednesday.
Eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain and UN Resident Coordinator
Renata Dessallien were present.

UNB, Dhaka

Head of the caretaker government Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said his interim regime is working tirelessly for a government truly of the people, by the people and for the people.

"We no longer want to endure governments 'of the money, by the money and for the money'," the Chief Adviser told a function marking the United Nations Day at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre. Brought in the helm of power by the recent political crisis over electoral issues, his nine-month-old government is carrying out massive sociopolitical reforms to create an atmosphere congenial to holding the stalled general election in a free, fair and credible manner.

UN Resident office to Bangladesh organized the 62nd founding anniversary of the United Nations, which came into being in 1945 for maintaining peace and order in the world.

Bangladesh became 136th member of the UN on September 17, 1974. Now 192 countries are the members of the United Nations. Video footage of the historic moment of Bangladesh's membership of the global body was screened at the function.

Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury and noted jurist Dr Kamal Hossain, who was present as Foreign Minister at the historical moment of Bangladesh joining in the UN through endorsement by the UN General Assembly in the UN headquarters in New York in 1974, also spoke on the occasion.