A book on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's historic March 7 speech -- published in UN's six official languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish -- was unveiled at Unesco headquarters on Friday.

Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to Unesco and Bangladesh embassy in Paris have published the book titled: "The Historic 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: A World Documentary Heritage".

Ambassadors and permanent representatives of Australia, England, France, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Spain, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Kuwait, Russia, China and Bangladesh to Unesco unveiled the book.

Unesco included the speech in the Memory of the World International Register, a list of world's important documentary heritage, in 2017.

According to Unesco, the speech constitutes "a faithful documentation of how the failure of post-colonial nation-states to develop inclusive, democratic society alienates their population belonging to different ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious groups."

According to a press statement by the Bangladesh Mission in Paris, the book contains special statements of Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Education Minister Dipu Moni.

Paying homage to the memory of Bangabandhu, Bangladesh Ambassador to Paris and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to Unesco Kazi Imtiaz said the March 7 speech worked as a major source of inspiration for the nine-month long war.

He also thanked the ambassadors and permanent representatives who participated in the event, and those who worked for translation and printing of the book.

The envoys present at the event recalled the leadership of Bangabandhu in the 1971 Liberation War and lauded the Bangladesh mission to Unesco for this significant publication.