at the
Antalya Diplomacy Forum in 2022 Abdul Momen became a civil servant, serving as private secretary to the
minister of rural development, local government and cooperatives from 1973 to 1974; private secretary to the minister of trade and commerce, and mineral resources and petroleum from 1974 to 1975; section officer, South Asia, East Asia and Middle East,
Ministry of Commerce from 1975 to 1976; and director, Office of the President's Advisor on Trade and Commerce from 1976 to 1978. Meanwhile, he completed an LLB in law and jurisprudence from Central College, Dhaka, in 1976. and the
American International University-Bangladesh. In 1998, Abdul Momen became an economic adviser at the
Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF). He left Saudi Arabia in the wake of the 2003
Riyadh compound bombings, and returned to Massachusetts. There he taught in the Department of Economics and Business Administration at
Framingham State College until appointed Bangladesh's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York in August 2009. He was vice president and acting president of the
67th United Nations General Assembly. Abdul Momen's elder brother, Bangladesh's Minister of Finance
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, hoped that Abdul Momen would succeed him as a member of the parliament representing the
Sylhet-1 constituency in the 2018 general election, which he eventually won. reported that Abdul Momen said in February 2020 that Bangladesh had "no obligation" to provide shelter to
Rohingya refugees who were stranded in the Andaman Sea on a ship. He asked the UNHCR to take the responsibility. ==References==