Humayun Rashid Choudhury

Humayun Rasheed Choudhury ( born November 11, 1928 in Sylhet, † July 10, 2001 in Dhaka ) was a Bangladeshi politician and diplomat. He served his country as Foreign Minister, among others, and also led the 41st session of the General Assembly of the United Nations as its president.

Life

He was born the son of Abdur Rasheed and Begum Choudhury Serajunessa into a political family. His father was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Assam, later the Parliament of British India. His mother was after independence, for the then East Pakistan and now Bangladesh, Member of Parliament of Pakistan. After studying at the Muslim University Aligarh, India and in London, in 1953 he joined the diplomatic service of Pakistan a. During his time in Pakistan's service, he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts.

During the Revolutionary War, he was Bangladesh 1971/72 sent as a representative of his native Bangladesh to India. From 1972 to 1976 he was the first ambassador of Bangladesh in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Holy See, and the first permanent representative of his country at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO ).

Subsequently, he was, in turn, be the first Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman, as well as additional permanent representative of Bangladesh in the Organization of the Islamic Conference. 1981/82 he was State Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka 1982-1985 and finally Ambassador to the United States.

In July 1985, Choudhury Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, which he remained until 1988. In September 1986, the UN General Assembly elected him for a year as its chairman. In addition, Choudhury was 1986, 1988 and 1996 elected to the Parliament of Bangladesh, which he presided over as president from 1996 until his death in 2001.

He was married and had a daughter.