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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear Friends in Media,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Greetings from the COAST Foundation and EquityBD.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Attached are the Bangla and English Press releases, along with some photos, of the press conference held today at </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF) in Dhaka,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> on 23
 June 2025  from 11.00 am to 12.00 pm. We organized the event on the eve
 of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), to
 be held in Sevilla, Spain from 30 June to 3 July 2025.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Title of the Press Release: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt">Civil Society calls for laundered money back to achieve SDGs</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">May
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hesitate to contact my colleague <b>Mr. Iqbal Uddin +88 0171332881</b>  and  me at <a href="callto:+8801711455591" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+8801711455591</span></a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"> .</span></span></p><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"> </span></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sincerely <br><div><b>Mustafa Kamal Akanda (Mr)</b> <br>Director- Administration &amp; SR<br></div><div>COAST Foundation  </div><div>Mobile &amp; WhatsApp: +8801711455591 <br></div><a href="http://www.coastbd.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.coastbd.net,</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>