French President Emmanuel Macron has conveyed his greetings through an email to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over the ongoing exhibition of French photographer Marc Riboud.
The exhibition is currently taking place at the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka. The photo exhibition kicked off on October 16.
Macron wrote in his humble letter how the photographer Riboud has first hand experience in the war. He was present in Bangladesh during the 1971 War of Liberation.
In his letter addressed to PM Hasina, the French PM begins by explaining how the photos soberly illustrate, with great humanity, the events that led to the independence of Bangladesh.
Macron writes: Marc Riboud had then spent a month with the "Mukhti Bahini", the freedom fighters, and was one of the very first to enter Dhaka, freed on December 16, 1971.
"These unique pictures show the admirable courage of Bengali people defending their freedom, their language, their culture, responding to the call of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," reads the letter.
The photos also witness the interest of France and French people for a determined nation and a country full of promises, as André Malraux expressed right after the declaration of independence, added Macron in his letter.
Macron also expressed his enthusiasm to strengthen the existing diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and France.
He writes: "I am pleased in that regard that this exhibition also contributes to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries that followed very closely the end of the war, as well as a never disproven relationship of trust and friendship,"
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