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At present, the capital city of Dhaka hosts 49 resident embassies and high commissions, including the European Union delegation. Other countries have accredited missions to Bangladesh by being resident in neighboring nations. Honorary consulates and trade missions are omitted from this listing. Map of diplomatic missions in Bangladesh
[1] [2] Herbert D. Spivack was the principal American diplomatic officer in Dhaka at the time. [3] Four days later, the United States and Bangladesh agreed to establish diplomatic relations at the embassy level. [4] The consulate-general was officially upgraded to an embassy on 18 May 1972. [5] [6] The present embassy buildings opened in 1989.
In May 1972, the United States government opened its establishment and diplomatic residence with Bangladesh. In December 1972, the nation established its new constitution. The embassy in Dhaka was established on May 18, 1972, with Herbert D. Spivack as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.
Bangladesh has an embassy in Washington D.C., and consulates in New York City and Los Angeles. The United States has an embassy in Dhaka, with information centers in Chittagong, Jessore, Rajshahi and Sylhet. The U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh also operates the Archer K Blood American Library and the Edward M Kennedy Centre in Dhaka.
The Embassy of Sweden in Dhaka is Sweden's diplomatic mission in Bangladesh. It is located in the Gulshan area of the capital. [ 1 ] Along with Swedish visas, the embassy represents Schengen visas for Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia.
On 22 September 1978, diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and the Maldives were established. [3]For nearly 30 years after the establishment of diplomatic relations, there was no permanent High Commissioner or Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, but in 2008, Dr. Abdul Samad Abdullah arrived in Dhaka as the first permanent High Commissioner.
On 13 March 1972, the former deputy high commissioner in Dacca (renamed Dhaka in 1982) and chargé d'affaires of the Australian mission since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Jim Allen, was appointed as Australia's first Ambassador to Bangladesh, which was quickly upgraded to the rank of high commissioner following Bangladesh's ...
The first diplomatic mission of modern Bangladesh was founded in Kolkata on 18 April 1971 after M Hossain Ali, the deputy high commissioner of Pakistan, and the other ethnic Bengali staff at the mission defected to the Bangladeshi provisional government amidst a spate of similar defections around the world during the Bangladesh Liberation War.