DHAKA: As secret agent James Bond, Daniel Craig has a license to kill, but on Tuesday the United Nations gave the British actor a ‘license to save’ by appointing him as the first global advocate for the elimination of mines and explosive hazards.

Craig, who has been filming his fourth movie as the dapper, martini-drinking agent 007, will spend the next three years raising awareness for the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and political and financial support for the cause.

‘You have been given a license to kill (as James Bond), I’m now giving you a license to save,’ UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told Craig at United Nations headquarters in New York, The Straits Times publishes this report on Thursday.

BDST: 1926 HRS, APR 16, 2015
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