Md Khurshed Alam, Maritime Affairs Unit (MAU) secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has resigned from his post.
Director General (Public Diplomacy wing) Toufique Hasan today (6 October) confirmed UNB regarding Alam’s resignation but did not elaborate.
He performed the duties regarding the ‘Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal’ in the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in, Germany and the ‘Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration between Bangladesh and India’ under Annex VII to UNCLOS in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague respectively.
He was also the head of the Bangladesh Continental Shelf technical team entrusted with the preparation, documentation, carrying out seismic survey of the Bay of Bengal and submission of Bangladesh’s claim on extended continental shelf to the 21 member UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
He was awarded with the first Bangabandhu Medal for Diplomatic Excellence in 2020 for his contribution to the settlement of Bangladesh’s Maritime Boundary, Development of Blue Economy and International Maritime Diplomacy.
