{"id":29224,"date":"2022-10-10T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29224"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:56:54","slug":"hasina-urges-global-leaders-to-spend-on-childrens-welfare-not-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/10\/10\/hasina-urges-global-leaders-to-spend-on-childrens-welfare-not-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasina urges global leaders to spend on children\u2019s welfare, not weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Desk Report: <\/strong>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again called on global leaders to stop spending trillions on weapons and advised them to spend the funds on children\u2019s welfare instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe coronavirus and the war in Ukraine slowed down economic and development progress all over the world, including Bangladesh, and now people everywhere are suffering. That\u2019s why I will always push for peace,\u201d she said while inaugurating the country&#8217;s first six-lane Modhumoti Bridge in Narail and the third Shitalakhya Bridge in Narayanganj via videoconferencing from her office in Dhaka on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I will also urge them [global leaders] to consider allocating the funds they are spending on weapons to children\u2019s welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desk Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again called on global leaders to stop spending trillions on weapons and advised them to spend the funds on children&rsquo;s welfare instead. &ldquo;The coronavirus and the war in Ukraine slowed down economic and development progress all over the world, including Bangladesh, and now people everywhere are suffering. That&rsquo;s why I will always push for peace,&rdquo; she said while inaugurating the country&rsquo;s first six-lane Modhumoti Bridge in Narail and the third Shitalakhya Bridge in Narayanganj via videoconferencing from her office in Dhaka on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29226,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions\/29226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}