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Bangladesh to formally recognize role played by the Indian Armed Forces

(27 Mar 2012) 1. Wide of Lieutenant General Jack Frederick Ralph Jacob from India standing up and saluting the audience after his name is announced 2. Back shot of Barbara Dasgupta from Germany receiving award from Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 3. Indian Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju talking to Lieutenant General Jack Frederick Ralph Jacob 4. Mid of Nepalese Ambassador in Dhaka, Hari Kumar Shrestha, taking award on behalf of Nepalese President, Ram Baran Yadav 5. Attendants applauding 6. Wide of Pallam Raju approaching the stage to take the award on behalf of Indian Armed Forces 7. Back shot of Pallam Raju moving back to his seat after taking the award 8. Wide of awardees 9. Chief Minister of north-east Indian state of Tripura, Manik Sarkar receiving award 10. Audience clapping 11. Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of north-east Indian state of Meghalaya receiving the award on behalf of his mother, the late Rawshan-Ara Begum Sangma 12. Audience applauding 13. Kuniko Usui from Japan taking the award on behalf of her husband, the late Naoaki Usui 14. Audience applauding 15. Leeladhar Mandloi, director general of All India Radio receiving award 16. Various of BBC's Director of Global News, Peter Horrocks, walking on stage and receiving award 17. Cutaway of awardees 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Barnes, former British Labour member of parliament: "Bangladesh has honoured today with the awards of the Bangladesh Liberation War Honour and the Friends of Liberation War Honour. It is a daunting task to respond because there are so many eminent people among the awardees who made great contributions in 1971." 19. Audience applauding 20. Wide of the ceremony with audience standing for the National Anthem of Bangladesh STORYLINE More than four decades after becoming an independent nation, Bangladesh on Tuesday honoured more than 100 'Friends of Bangladesh' for their contributions to the country's War of Liberation from Pakistan in 1971. Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina distributed the awards at a ceremonial reception at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka. Scores of Indians figured in the list of awardees, conferred in two categories - 'Friends of Liberation War Honour' and 'Bangladesh Liberation War Honour'. The other recipients were from countries including Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Nepal, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the US and former Yugoslavia. Among the recipients were the Indian armed forces, represented at the ceremony by Indian Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju. "It is a formal recognition by the Government of Bangladesh of the supreme sacrifice made by about 1,400 Indian Armed Forces personnel during Bangladesh's nine-month long Liberation War,"the Indian Defence ministry said in a statement. The chief minister of the North-East Indian state of Tripura Manik Sarkar was also given the award. Some institutions and organisations including the Red Cross, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), BBC, All India Radio and Oxfam also received the awards for their contributions during the Liberation War. Each of the awardees received a gold-plated silver metallic plaque on which a replica of the national memorial had been engraved and a citation. Last year, Bangladesh had conferred the "Bangladesh Freedom Honour" on former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi . Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...