PM leaves for Geneva tomorrow
Monday, 31 August 2009
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Geneva tomorrow (Tuesday) on a five-day official visit to attend the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) beginning today in Switzerland, reports BSS.
The theme of the upcoming WCC-3 being organised by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is "Climate prediction and information for decision making".
Headed by the Prime Minister, the Bangladesh delegation include Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, former ambassador M Ziauddin, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister MA Karim, Foreign Secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes and Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad.
Besides, eminent journalist and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, journalists Suvas Chandra Singho Roy, Shah Alamgir and Kalayan Saha will also accompany the Prime Minister.
During her stay in Switzerland, Hasina will deliver Bangladesh Statement Thursday in the conference. The Bangladesh Prime Minister is likely to raise in the conference current climate change concerns and how Bangladesh is being affected by the global warming.
The Prime Minister is expected to make an appeal to international community to provide technological and financial assistance in climate change adaptation and mitigation programmes of Bangladesh.
Apart from these, the Bangladesh PM will attend a high-level segment of the World Climate Conference-3 and co-chair a session of the high-level segment in the WCC-3.
The goal of the WCC-3 is to crate a global framework that will link scientific advances in these climate predictions and the needs of their users for decision- making to better cope with changing conditions.
On the sidelines of the conference, the Prime Minister is expected to hold bilateral meetings with Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clarke and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Achim Steiner.
Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, will attend a Bangladeshi community programme and a dinner hosted by Bangladesh Ambassador in Geneva Friday.
The Prime Minister is expected to return home on September 6.
The First World Climate Conference was held on February 12-23 in 1979 in Geneva and the second one on October 29 to November 7 in 1990 again in Geneva.
The theme of the upcoming WCC-3 being organised by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is "Climate prediction and information for decision making".
Headed by the Prime Minister, the Bangladesh delegation include Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, former ambassador M Ziauddin, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister MA Karim, Foreign Secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes and Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad.
Besides, eminent journalist and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, journalists Suvas Chandra Singho Roy, Shah Alamgir and Kalayan Saha will also accompany the Prime Minister.
During her stay in Switzerland, Hasina will deliver Bangladesh Statement Thursday in the conference. The Bangladesh Prime Minister is likely to raise in the conference current climate change concerns and how Bangladesh is being affected by the global warming.
The Prime Minister is expected to make an appeal to international community to provide technological and financial assistance in climate change adaptation and mitigation programmes of Bangladesh.
Apart from these, the Bangladesh PM will attend a high-level segment of the World Climate Conference-3 and co-chair a session of the high-level segment in the WCC-3.
The goal of the WCC-3 is to crate a global framework that will link scientific advances in these climate predictions and the needs of their users for decision- making to better cope with changing conditions.
On the sidelines of the conference, the Prime Minister is expected to hold bilateral meetings with Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clarke and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Achim Steiner.
Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, will attend a Bangladeshi community programme and a dinner hosted by Bangladesh Ambassador in Geneva Friday.
The Prime Minister is expected to return home on September 6.
The First World Climate Conference was held on February 12-23 in 1979 in Geneva and the second one on October 29 to November 7 in 1990 again in Geneva.