The first SAARC summit in Dhaka; Lt Gen Ershad with US President Ronald Reagan; Ershad with Japanese Emperor Hirohito; President Ershad with US President George H. W. Bush; President Ershad and French President Francois Mitterand; and President Ershad and Queen Elizabeth
Bangladesh's first contingent of UN peacekeepers in 1988 (left); Humayun Rashid Choudhury presides over a UN meeting as the 41st President of the UN General Assembly (right)
Official portrait of Kamran H. Chowdhury MP in the fourth parliament. He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.
The Ershad era in Bangladesh covered much of the 1980s, including martial law between 1982 and 1986 and the semi-presidential system between 1986 and 1990 which saw the third and fourth parliaments. In this podcast, we talk about foreign policy in the Ershad era and how the MP from Faridpur was tied with foreign policy, with a primary role as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee in parliament.
