Cambodian PM due Monday
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen arrives in the city Monday on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh when the two countries are likely to sign three agreements and a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Hun Sen will lead a delegation comprising his Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts, and other members of the Royal government of Cambodia, according to a news agency.
He will reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9:50am when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will receive him at the airport.
The Cambodian premier is coming at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina who visited Cambodia in 2001. This will be the highest-level visit from Cambodia to Bangladesh.
Hun Sen will visit the National Mausoleum at Savar around 3:10pm and will pay tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War placing wreaths there. He will also plant a tree over there.
From there, he will go to Dhaka Export Processing Zone (EPZ) at 4:50pm where BEPZA Chairman Mohd Habibur Rahman Khan will receive him, said a Foreign Ministry official. The Cambodian premier will visit the city’s Buddha Bihar in the evening.
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) will host dinner in honour of Cambodian Prime Minister and members of his delegation at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel.