PM flies to Seoul, KL tomorrow
Friday, 14 May 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave the city tomorrow (Saturday noon) for a five-day visit to South Korea and Malaysia from May 16, reports UNB.
On her way to Seoul, the Prime Minister and her entourage will make a stopover for some six hours in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The Bangladesh delegation is scheduled to arrive in Seoul at 6:30 am (local time) by a flight of Thai Airways on May 16.
In Seoul, the Prime Minister will stay until May 18 when she will have bilateral summit talk with President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak on the last day of her visit (May 18).
keynote address at the opening ceremony of Commission Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Following her summit talk with the Korean President, several MOUs and agreements will be signed on infrastructure development and economic assistance.
Prime Minister Hasina and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will hold crucial talks on expanding Dhaka-Seoul cooperation in varied fields - from infrastructure development to shipbuilding and from transfer of green technology to environment.
Recruitment of skilled and semi-skilled manpower from Bangladesh to Korea will feature prominently during the official talks. Besides, Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) will arrange a luncheon meeting in honour of the Bangladesh Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is also scheduled to have bilateral talks with Maanee Lee, Minister of Environment, and Choi Kyung-Hwan, Minister of Knowledge Economy, at the Presidential suite. Sheikh Hasina will also visit the Hanging Project of Seoul Metropolitan Government on the River Han.
On May 18, she will place wreaths at the National Cemetery of Korea's Memorial Tower.
The Prime Minister will leave Seoul in the afternoon of May 18 for Kuala Lumpur, where she will hold talks with her Malaysian counterpart Najib bin Razak, focusing on recruitment of Bangladeshi workers and expansion of bilateral trade and investment.
In Kuala Lumpur, Hasina will also address the inaugural session of the three-day 6th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), which will begin on May 18.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to return home on May 21.
On her way to Seoul, the Prime Minister and her entourage will make a stopover for some six hours in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The Bangladesh delegation is scheduled to arrive in Seoul at 6:30 am (local time) by a flight of Thai Airways on May 16.
In Seoul, the Prime Minister will stay until May 18 when she will have bilateral summit talk with President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak on the last day of her visit (May 18).
keynote address at the opening ceremony of Commission Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Following her summit talk with the Korean President, several MOUs and agreements will be signed on infrastructure development and economic assistance.
Prime Minister Hasina and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will hold crucial talks on expanding Dhaka-Seoul cooperation in varied fields - from infrastructure development to shipbuilding and from transfer of green technology to environment.
Recruitment of skilled and semi-skilled manpower from Bangladesh to Korea will feature prominently during the official talks. Besides, Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) will arrange a luncheon meeting in honour of the Bangladesh Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is also scheduled to have bilateral talks with Maanee Lee, Minister of Environment, and Choi Kyung-Hwan, Minister of Knowledge Economy, at the Presidential suite. Sheikh Hasina will also visit the Hanging Project of Seoul Metropolitan Government on the River Han.
On May 18, she will place wreaths at the National Cemetery of Korea's Memorial Tower.
The Prime Minister will leave Seoul in the afternoon of May 18 for Kuala Lumpur, where she will hold talks with her Malaysian counterpart Najib bin Razak, focusing on recruitment of Bangladeshi workers and expansion of bilateral trade and investment.
In Kuala Lumpur, Hasina will also address the inaugural session of the three-day 6th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), which will begin on May 18.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to return home on May 21.