UN We Believe and Other Essays

Wali-ur Rahman

Waliur Rahman, a diplomat, essayist, critic and translator, was born in Jessore, Bangladesh in 1942. Educated in Dhaka, Mr. Rahman enjoyed a fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford in 1974-75. Mr.Rahman had the rare privilege of piloting the admission of Bangladesh to the World Health Organization (WHO), the first United Nations Agency to admit the newly independent country Bangladesh as a member in May 1972. At that time he was the first Permanent Observer a.i. to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva where he also witnessed the admission of Bangladesh to such UN Agencies as ILO, WMO, UPU, FAO, GATT, UNCTAD, IAEA and UNIDO. Since then Mr. Rahman has been deeply involved in the work of the International