Acting Foreign Secretary is Khorshed Alam

Until further orders, Secretary of Maritime Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rear Admiral (retd.) Md. Khurshed Alam has been appointed as acting foreign secretary.

This information was informed in the office order signed by Mohammad Nazmul Haque, Director General (Administration) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday (September 2).

Earlier on the same day, the interim government canceled the contract-based appointment of Foreign Secretary Masood Bin Momen. According to the order in this regard, according to Article-7 of the contract signed by the government with Masud, the remaining term of his contractual appointment has been cancelled.

Before this, Masood was serving as the Foreign Secretary from December 31, 2019. On December 6, 2022, at the end of the service age, he was contractually appointed as Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a period of two years. This period was supposed to end in the first week of December this year.

After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in the mass movement of students, there are changes in the top positions of various government departments. More than a dozen senior secretaries and secretary-rank officials, who continued to serve on contract even after passing the normal retirement age, have already found jobs.

Bangladesh /FM