CVF Presidency: Abul Kalam Azad named special envoy
Abul Kalam Azad, former principal secretary at the Prime Minister's Office, has been appointed as special envoy of Climate Vulnerable Forum's (CVF) presidency.
Azad will serve as key representative of Bangladesh prime minister, who is also the CVF chair, to support realisation of CVF's objectives and priorities.
He will work closely with the presidency to actively promote interests of climate vulnerable countries and take initiatives for global partners and other stakeholders, said a foreign ministry statement yesterday.
Bangladesh assumed presidency of CVF and Vulnerable Twenty Group of Finance Ministers, which had been announced through an online event, chaired by Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on June 9.
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