Bangkok, 27 May 2016: Dedicated
to Queen Sirikit as a tribute to Her Majesty’s contribution to promoting
heritage silk in Thailand and to all the cotton and silk weavers from
Bangladesh and Thailand who have kept our heritage looms alive, the Threads of Heritage Show being held at
Grand Ball Room of Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre (QSNCC), Bangkok on
30 May 2016 from 4 pm to 5.30 pm. The show is part of the Bangladesh trade and
Investment Expo 2016 from 30 May to 1 June 2016. This show is going to be
contoured by 3 celebrity designers from Bangladesh and Thailand. Bangladesh
designers would be paying tribute to Queen Sirikit Chitralada Project Silk
Shop by using Thai silk from North-eastern Thailand in their couture
ensemble. The Thai designer would be paying tribute to Bangladesh heritage silk
from famed Rajshahi silk. We are proud to present Rina Latif, who is
internationally acclaimed fashion designer who dedicated her career to promote
Muslin silk in Bangladesh and we are also proud to present Ms. Maheen Khan of
Mayasir Couture who dedicated her career for folk and ethnic heritage artisan
in Bangladesh. Bangladesh would be specially showcasing Bangladesh heritage
silk, silk Muslin, silk kattan, silk Jamdani and some other silk varieties in
the fashion show. We are very excited that Mr. Sudjitt Sudjitt, Thailand’s
celebrated designer from finale wedding studio would be showing his studio
couture.
Minister of Tourism and Sports H.E.
Mrs. Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul will be present in this show as Patron and Chief
Guest of Honour of the show and Bangladesh Commerce Minister H.E. Mr. Tofail
Ahmed will also be in the show as the Special Guest.
Bangladesh Embassy is very happy
that designers from both country have joined their hands to design new and
traditional fabric and attires that speak of the ancient and contemporary
cultural connectivity between Bangladesh and Thailand- two neighbourhood countries.
Bangladesh-Thailand Threads of
Heritage show
Celebrity
Thai Models
Thai Models
Celetrati Bangladeshi Model
Brief
Biography of Ms. Saida Muna Tasneem
Ms. Saida Muna
Tasneem has taken up respectfully as Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand and
Cambodia on 14 November 2014. She has also been appointed as Bangladesh’s
Permanent Representative to the UNESCAP.
Prior to this Ms. Tasneem headed the
United Nations Wing as a Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Government of Bangladesh for the last five years. She also served as
Director General of the External Publicity Wing of the Ministry. Before joining
back at the Ministry in early 2009, Ms. Tasneem served as Minister (Political
and Press) at the Bangladesh High Commission in London. She also served at the
Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nation in New York as Deputy Head of
Mission and Counsellor. Earlier, Ms Tasneem served in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in different capacities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs including in
the United Nations, South Asia, SAARC, BIMSTEC, Administration, West Asia and
Americas and the Pacific Wing.
A career diplomat, Ms. Saida Muna
Tasneem joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1993, prior to which she
worked as an Industrial Planning Engineer at the Bangladesh Chemical Industries
Corporation Head Office in Dhaka. Ms.
Tasneem obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the
Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET), Dhaka and a Master of
Science Degree in Public Policy and Planning from the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
The areas of expertise of Ms. Tasneem
include multilateral issues such as international peace, security and strategic
issues, United Nations peacekeeping and peacebuilding, counter-terrorism and
financing of terrorism, anti money-laundering and targeted UN sanctions regime,
disarmament and non-proliferation, democracy, human rights, anti corruption and
governance, international humanitarian law, law of the sea, trafficking in
persons, women empowerment, Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015
development agenda. She also has extensive experience in South and South East
Asian Regional Cooperation issues within the ambit of SAARC and BIMSTEC and
specializes in peace, security, immigration and counter-terrorism issues within
these Regional Cooperation mechanisms including the ARF.
Ms. Tasneem has negotiated regional
and international documents for Bangladesh in a large number of high-level
International Conferences and Summits including the Commonwealth Summits, UN
General Assemblies and Major United Nations Conferences of 90s, SAARC and
BIMSTEC Summits, UN Human Rights Council and Asia Pacific regional meetings.
She also accompanied Prime Minister of Bangladesh to several UN General
Assemblies as senior delegate.
She has served as an expert in a
number of National Committees on security issues the drafting of the National Defence
Policy of Bangladesh and revision of Bangladesh's War Book. She also served as
Member Secretary to the National Committee on UN Security Council Resolution
and National Task Force on repatriation of Refugees and Undocumented Nationals
from Myanmar. Ms Tasneem served as a member of the Finance Ministry, National
Committee on Anti-money Laundering and financing of terrorism and Bangladesh
Bank, National Task Force on anti-money Laundering and repatriation of launder
resources. Ms Tasneem was also the Women in Development (WID) focal point for
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ms. Saida Muna Tasneem is the editor
of several Foreign Office publications including on Bangladesh Foreign Policy,
Bangladesh at the UN, UN Peacekeeping, Bangladesh’s cultural heritage and
tourism, and the Foreign Affairs
Journals. She also specializes in media, communications and publicity matters.
