<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh doesn't want any more conflict rather it wants to improve the quality of people's lives.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We don't want any more unrest, conflict. We want to improve the quality of people's lives. And we always wish it," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this regard, Sheikh Hasina referred to the peaceful democratic environment that prevailing in the country from 2008 election helped Bangladesh to attain the remarkable socioeconomic development in the last 14 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bangladesh has been able to attain socioeconomic development due to the peaceful democratic environment prevailing in the country since 2008 election as Awami League won the elections and formed the government in 2009," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Premier made this remarks while addressing a function organised to celebrate the golden jubilee of the conferment of the Joliot-Curie Peace Medal to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said the government, after being elected in 2008 election, has been working for the development of the people of the country in a planned way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"As a result, we have been able to reduce the poverty rate and maternal death, increase literacy rate and life expectancy," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She continued that the sustainable and peaceful democratic environment, prevailing in the country, is the only reason behind the unprecedented socioeconomic progress of Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"So, a peaceful sustainable environment is helpful for the people to attain economic emancipation, and all have to remember it," she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister laid emphasis on settle-down all disputes through dialogue that Bangladesh did with India and Myanmar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Why this arms competition (going on) now, why the money that is using for arms competition will not be used for hungry children and human. For this arms competition thousands of children and women are leading inhuman lives around the globe," she noted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this connection, Sheikh Hasina mentioned that Bangladesh has given shelter to more than one million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, Rohingyas, who faced oppression that recalled her the situation of 1971.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We want that peace shall return in the earth, there shall be no types of unrest (in the earth)," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister said that those who didn't want the Independence of the country killed Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "Every moment, we have to overcome their (anti-Liberation forces) barriers," she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Expressing her tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Premier said that Bangabandhu had received peace prize, disseminated the message of peace in his entire life, but he had to sacrifice his life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What a misfortune for us, the man who spoke of peace had to give his life," she said, adding that "today, he is no more with us, but we want that his country may build up as a developed and prosperous one."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheikh Hasina also announced to introduce "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Peace Prize" to recognise those who are working for establishing peace in home and abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Because we want peace and we will surely advance towards the path of peace," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cabinet Division organised the event at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain delivered welcome address, while eminent politician and researcher Monayem Sarker made keynote speech at the programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Former Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, former Principal Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury and Noted Writer Anwara Syed Haq took part at the discussion on keynote speech.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President of Bangladesh Peace Council Mozaffar Hossain Paltu delivered vote of thanks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the outset, a video documentary on Bangabandhu and his Joliot-Curie Peace Medal receiving was screened.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the function, the Premier unveiled commemorative postage stamp and first day cover on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the conferment of the Joliot-Curie Peace Medal to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She also unveiled the cover of a souvenir publication to mark the day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was awarded the Julio-Curie Peace Prize by the World Peace Council on May 23, 1973.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">World leaders like Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Yasser Arafat, Salvador Allende, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, poet and politician Pablo Neruda, Jawaharlal Nehru, Martin Luther King and Leonid Brezhnev were awarded the prize.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The peace prize of the World Peace Council was an international recognition of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for his contribution to the establishment of world peace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Julio-Curio Peace Prize award was the first ever international award for Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a result of this great achievement, the Father of the Nation became Bhishwabandhu from Bangabandhu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To commemorate the contributions of world-renowned scientists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie to the struggle for world peace, the World Peace Council has been awarding Julio Curie Peace Prize to distinguished individuals and organisations since 1950 for outstanding contribution to the fight against fascism, anti-imperialism, humanitarian welfare and peace. 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