Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury was informed of these visits during separate bilateral meetings with the state minister for foreign affairs for Qatar and Bahrain yesterday on the sidelines of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) in Islamabad, according to a Foreign Ministry press release.

Meanwhile, Albanian Deputy Foreign Minister Edith Harxihi asked Bangladesh to support for a draft pending with the United Nations Security Council on the independence of Kosovo, as proposed by Marti Ahtassari, UN Secretary General's Special Representative to Kosovo.

The Qatar Investment Council delegation will visit Bangladesh in either July or October this year after Qatari State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud expressed their keenness to invest in Bangladesh to Iftekhar.

In the bilateral meeting, Iftekhar and Al-Mahmoud discussed the visit, headed by the Qatari state minister, and identified energy, real estate and infrastructure development of Special Economic Zones as possible projects for initial consideration.

Bahrain State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nazar Sadeq Al Baharma will visit Bangladesh between June 20-24 to discuss investment and partnership in small and medium scale industries.