PM leaves for Japan today
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Japan this morning to attend the G7 Outreach Meeting in Ise-Shima where she would discuss bilateral and international issues with several world leaders.
Hasina would play leadership role in four issues -- health, women empowerment, achieving sustainable development goals and cooperation in building advanced infrastructure -- at the meeting to be participated by seven heads of states and governments.
“Our prime minister has been requested to play leadership role in these four basic issues at the outreach meeting,” Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told reporters at a press conference yesterday.
He said Hasina's participation in the programme “reflected world leaders' confidence in her leadership”.
Diplomatic sources said the PM, on the sidelines of the meeting, is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameroon tomorrow.
The two leaders, who exchanged letters after the UK imposed a ban on direct cargo flight from Dhaka to London recently, may discuss the issue during the meeting, as the security at the Dhaka airport has been beefed up, said the sources.
Hasina is expected to have a crucial bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 28 in Ise-Shima.
She would meet Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on the same day as well.
The PM is leading an 87-member delegation, including 30 businessmen, during the four-day visit to Japan.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, the current chair of the G-7, invited his Bangladesh counterpart on April 8 to attend the outreach meeting of G-7 tomorrow on the sidelines of the G7 Summit.
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