PM leaves for Turkey today
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave here for Turkey today morning on a four-day visit to attend the fourth UN Conference on LDCs to be held in Istanbul.
The conference takes place every 10 years with the first held in 1981.
On Sunday, the prime minister will deliver her speech at the summit of the LDC Group at Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Next morning (May 9), she will attend the inaugural ceremony of the fourth UN Conference on LDCs at Lutfi Kirdar centre.
Hasina will visit Bangladeshi stall at LDC Trade Fair to be started the same day.
Later, she will call on the Nepalese prime minister and have a meeting with the Turkish prime minister.
She will witness the signing of an agreement between the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) for establishing Turkish Bangladesh Business Council (TBBC).
Then she will have meetings with the EU head of delegation, head of state or head of government of Finland and Belgium and UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon.
On May 10, Hasina will deliver her speech in the morning session of the fourth UN Conference on LDCs at Lutfi Kirdar centre.
The same day, she will leave Istanbul for home and is expected to arrive in Dhaka in the morning of May 11.
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