Bangladesh has become the Chair of the Delta Coalition for the next one year, a foreign ministry statement said in Dhaka on Saturday.The country will also have the secretariat of the Delta Coalition for the next one year in Dhaka, the statement said.Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands, handed over the chairmanship to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali.Ovink handed over the chairmanship at a simple ceremony at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The Netherlands is the outgoing Chair of the Coalition.‘With great pleasure we would like to announce that the chairmanship of the Delta Coalition has been handed over to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh by the Kingdom of the Netherlands,’ a statement of the Coalition said on Saturday.In the statement, the Netherlands also assured that it would assist Bangladesh to jointly ensure the success of the Delta Coalition.During its chairmanship, Bangladesh will host a working session in Marrakesh, Morocco on November 7-18 and a Ministerial Conference in the second quarter of 2017 in Dhaka.After receiving the chairmanship, Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali thanked the government of the Netherlands for this landmark initiative and their active contributions in giving a concrete shape to the Coalition.The Delta Coalition is the world’s first international coalition of governments aiming to deal with inclusive and sustainable development in deltas, by combining economic development with adaptation and preventive measures reducing climate change risks and strengthening resilience.It is a government-to-government partnership of currently twelve countries including Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam, according to a news agency report.