<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged World Bank (WB) and other international organizations to strengthen support to help developing countries like Bangladesh overcome crisis steaming from Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Help developing countries like Bangladesh to face the existing crisis arisen from Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war," she said while visiting WB Managing Director (MD) for Operations Axel van Trotsenburg paid a courtesy call on her at her office here this morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM's Speechwriter M Nazrul Islam told a news briefing after the call on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trotsenburg called Bangladesh's development as "incredible" and assured of staying beside Dhaka in its development spree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We have been remaining beside Bangladesh since 1972 and will continue support in its development efforts," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, under whose visionary leadership, Bangladesh has made massive development.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said, "Per capita income of Bangladesh was only 50 USD while it has now increased to 2824 USD". BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>