Bangladesh and the United Nations Bangladesh and the United Nations Bangladesh and United Nation have a strong relation. Bangladesh is one of the largest troop contributing countries in the world. Bangladesh is represented in the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, by the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations which is headed by the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. Masud Bin Momen is the present Permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nation. Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in Geneva represents the interest of Bangladesh to United Nation organs based in Geneva. Bangladesh is represented in Vienna
Headquarters of the United Nations International Library. In the late 1950s the Ford Foundation gave a grant to the United Nations for the construction of a new library building; Dag Hammarskjöld was also instrumental in securing the funding for the new building. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library was dedicated and renamed on November 16, 1961. The building was a gift from the Ford Foundation and is located next to the Secretariat at the southwest corner of the headquarters campus. The library holds 400,000 books, 9,800 newspapers and periodical titles, 80,000 maps and the Woodrow Wilson Collection containing 8,600 volumes of League of Nations documents and 6,500