Prime Minister's foreign trips
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina travelled to Switzerland and Canada to attend two conferences recently. Whereas other nations never send their heads of state to such visits, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina personally attended those conferences costing Bangladeshi taxpayers a huge amount of money. Our Environment Minister and Health Minister could have represented our country in those events successfully.
Recently, Sheikh Hasina attended the fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul where no foreign head of state attended. Unfortunately, she was the only head of state in that conference. Why is she more interested to participate in such conferences while she has a lot of duties at home to perform? What is the nation getting in return of such visits? Other nations of Southeast Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Maldives) never send their heads of state to such events. Can one of the poorest nations on earth like Bangladesh afford such unnecessary state visits?
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