Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Nepal today(Tuesday) afternoon to attend the 18th Saarc Summit to be held in Kathmandu on November 26-27, reports UNB.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport carrying the PM and her entourage around 3 pm and is expected to reach Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu at 4:15 pm (Nepal time).
She will be given guard of honour on her arrival at the Tribhuvan Airport from there she will be taken to her place of residence Crown Plaza Kathmandu - Soaltee.
On Wednesday, the PM will attend the inaugural session of the Saarc Summit at City Hall (Rashtriya Sabha Griha), Bhrikuti Mandap, Kathmandu.
She will be received by her Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala and Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur Pandey.
Another report from Kathmandu adss: The three-day People's SAARC Regional Convergence-2014 concluded in Lalitpur district adjacent to Kathmandu Monday adopting a 24-point declaration.
"We've come together to challenge the systematic and structural marginalisation and exclusion of people through the dominant neo-liberal economic model that is at play currently, which has been violently restructuring the region's economic policies and cultural life of the people and undermining and devaluing both the values and institutions of democracy directly or indirectly," reads the declaration.
The declaration has pointed out that militarisation in the SAARC member states has been increasing in the name of combating terrorism and defending national security. "Arbitrary detention, torture, custodial rape and extra-judicial killings have reduced space for democratic dissent and freedoms," states the declaration.
PM goes to Nepal today to attend Saarc Summit
FE Team | Published: November 25, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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