Dipu Moni leaves for Japan, Cambodia
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni left Dhaka yesterday for a week to attend the second International Conference on Afghanistan in Japan and the Nineteenth Meeting of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) in Cambodia.
Today, she will attend the daylong conference in Tokyo alongside US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and delegates from some 70 nations and international agencies, said foreign ministry officials.
The conference will review the achievements in the past decade and chalk out a new roadmap for the war-torn Afghanistan to follow after Nato-led troops withdraw in 2014.
The roadmap aims to establish accountability, improve governance and finance management and safeguard the democratic process, rule of law and human rights, especially of women.
Dipu Moni leaves Japan on July 11 to attend the Asean (Association of South East Asian Nations) Regional Forum meeting, scheduled to be held in Phnom Penh on July 12.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will chair the meeting where Hillary and 26 other foreign ministers and representative of the 28 ARF participants and the Asean secretary-general will be present.
Dipu Moni is expected to return home in the early hours of July 14.
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