Sorcar made envoy to Netherlands

The government has decided to appoint Muhammad Ali Sorcar, director general of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A career diplomat, Sorcar belonged to the 1986 batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) Cadre and joined the service in 1989.
During his diplomatic career, he served in the Permanent Mission in New York and Bangladesh Embassy in Brussels.
Specialising in the multilateral diplomacy, he had been a representative of the government to all UN General Assembly sessions since 1995 to 2008, except in 2005 when he was in Bangladesh Embassy in Brussels.
He worked as the key person in some signature resolutions of the government at the UN, including, “Role of micro credit in the eradication of poverty,” (still a biennial resolution at the UN), “International Year of Micro credit, 2005,” and proclamation of November 14 as the “World Day of Diabetes.”
He was also Alternate Coordinator to the UN Security Council in 2000 and 2001, when Bangladesh was a member of this body.
Sorcar holds an MBBS degree from Mymensingh Medical College and a masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from the Tufts University in USA.