Bangladesh

In 1974, the country joined the Commonwealth of Nations and the UN, and has since been elected twice to the UN Security Council: from 1978 to 1979 and from 2000 to 2001. In the 1980s, he played an important role in founding the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (ASACR)

1975-81 Conservative rule under Ziaur Rahman On August 15, 1975, the military took power by coup. It was based on an alliance between the layer of intermediate officer and the civil bureaucracy. Khandakar Mostaque Ahmed – a former minister in