The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Cultural activists and media personnel at a symposium in the city hoped that the United Nations (UN) would play a vital role to establish democracy and human rights, ensure rights of women and workers and remove poverty from the globe.

This optimism was expressed by speakers in the symposium on 'UN: My Expectations' at a city hotel yesterday organised by the United Nations Association of Bangladesh (UNAB) to mark the 62nd UN Day.

Abed Khan, Editor of daily Shomokal, poet Nirmalendu Goon, film actress Kobori Sarwar, artiste Samina Chowdhury, TV actress Sumaya Shimu, Syed Mohammad Shahed, Secretary General of UNAB, among others, spoke at the symposium.

Abed Khan said, "The UN could not give us peace. There is not a single day without war after the establishment of the UN. It cannot protect the third world from the super power of the world."

Kabori Sarwar said, "We can't think the UN as our own. It plays a silent role during any war, terrorism and economic imbalance in the world."

She expected the UN would not only throw food from the sky by helicopters on the ground in Somalia, it could play a vital and effective role to remove poverty.