Hasina to meet Aung San Suu Kyi

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit at Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw.
It would be her first meeting with the Noble Peace Laureate pro-democracy leader who was released from house arrest in 2010 after 15 years of detention.
According to the Prime Minister’s office, Hasina-Suu Kyi meeting is set for 4pm on Monday at the Parliament.
Hasina will leave for Nay Pyi Taw Monday morning to attend the third summit of the seven-member Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).
She would lead a 32-member delegation. It is also her first foreign visit after she returned to power for the second successive term following Jan 5 elections.
Hasina would also meet Myanmar President Thein Sein at the Presidential Palace as part of her meeting with different heads of states including India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Myanmar is a southern neighbour of Bangladesh but relations between the countries have been marred for years by the Rohingya refugee issues.
Bangladesh has given shelter to thousands of Muslim Rohingyas who fled Myanmar's Rakhine province following sectarian violence, according to a news agency.