The compliments poured in at a remembrance meeting for the late envoy who passed away on December 30 while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) from pneumonia and successive heart attack, according to Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.

The meeting was organised by Bangladesh High Commission, his last post of assignment where he served as Bangladesh’s high commissioner for five years overseeing a peak in the Indo-Bangladesh relations, often seen as a golden chapter and a fine example of neighbourhood diplomacy.

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Former Indian diplomats to Bangladesh, war veterans, friends of Bangladesh, academics, journalists and cultural activists gathered at the mission’s Maitree Hall pouring out their hearts in tribute to the iconic late ambassador.

The mourners also joined the grieving members of the mission in placing wreaths at a portrait of Syed Muazzem Ali and several of them spoke in paying homage to him.

Acting High Commissioner ATM Rokebul Haque led the tribute and read out an obituary on the outstanding late diplomat of Bangladesh.

Earlier, the officers and staff of the mission held an in-house condolence meeting before the Jum’a prayers. Special dua was offered for the late high commissioner after the prayers.

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Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and over 60 ambassadors and diplomats from New Delhi-based foreign embassies signed their tribute in a condolence book the Bangladesh mission opened for Syed Muazzem Ali for three days (from Dec 31 to Jan2).

The mission also held a ‘gayebana janaza’ (funeral prayer in absentia) on January 1, the day the late ambassador was buried at Dhaka’s Banani graveyard following a guard of honour and two consecutive Janazas.

His Qulkhawani was held on Friday in the city.