Desk Report
Published: 13 Oct 2021, 07:21 pm
Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) 2022 || Photo: Collected
Bangladesh Finance Minister
AHM Mustafa Kamal has been elected as the chairperson of Commonwealth Finance
Ministers Meeting (CFMM) 2022.
He has been given such
prestigious honour following a formal proposal mooted by Malaysia and supported
by Brunei in this CFMM.
A virtual meeting of the
Commonwealth Finance Ministers was held yesterday evening on the sidelines of
the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings 2021.
Finance ministers of the 54
Commonwealth countries alongside high-level officials attended the meeting
through virtual platform. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal led the Bangladesh
delegation at the meeting.
After being elected as the
new chairperson of CFMM for 2022, the finance minister thanked the authorities
concerned on beheld of the people of Bangladesh, said a Finance Ministry press
release today.
The release said that the
finance minister apprised the meeting that Bangladesh has been attaining an
unprecedented growth of 7.4 percent on average for the last one decade.
He mentioned that Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the SDG progress award last month during
her participation at the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Presided over by Prime
Minister of Antigua Gaston Browne, Commonwealth Secretariat Secretary General
Patricia Scotland spoke on the occasion.
The speakers at the meeting
highlighted providing loan for sustainable and economic recovery, providing
loan for tackling climate change impacts, Commonwealth climate finance access
hub and other issues.