New York: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won the 'South-South Cooperation Visionary Award' of United Nations on Friday.

PM's son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy, who is also the ICT Affairs Adviser to the PM, received the award on behalf of Sheikh Hasina.

Joy received the award from UN secretary general's special envoy Yiping Zhou in Washington on Friday, the last day of five-day Global South South Development Expo-2014.

AK Abdul Momen, Bangladesh's permanent envoy to the UN and president of 'High Level Committee on South-South Cooperation', presided over the closing ceremony.


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