PM leaves for Davos tonight
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Switzerland tonight for a weeklong official visit to attend the 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Diplomatic sources said the four-day meeting will be held on January 17-20 under the theme "Responsive and Responsible Leadership".
The WEF is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, is best known for its annual meeting at the end of January in Davos. It brings together some 3,000 top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists for up to four days to discuss the most pressing issues of the world.
As per the programme schedule, the PM and her entourage members will depart by an Etihad Airways flight instead of Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 9:45pm and are scheduled to reach Zurich International Airport at 6:45am (local time) tomorrow.
In November last year, a Biman flight carrying the PM to Budapest in Hungary was compelled to make an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan because of “technical glitch”. Hasina was going to attend the Budapest Water Summit 2016.
According to the foreign ministry officials, Hasina will attend a number of events of the WEF and hold talks with WEF Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and other head of states and governments.
On January 17, the PM will attend the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum at the Congress Centre in Davos. Before this programme, Schwab will call on Hasina.
Hasina will also join a workshop titled "Shaping a New Water Economy" at the same venue on that day. In the afternoon, she will attend an interactive session on "Harnessing Regional Cooperation in South Asia" at the Congress Centre.
On January 18, Hasina will take part in an event titled "Worlds Underwater" as well as the plenary session on "Leading the Fight against Climate Change".
The next day, she will participate in an interactive session titled "Informal Gathering of the World Economic Leaders: Responsive and Responsible Leadership in a Multipolar World".
The PM will also attend another programme titled "Women Leaders Dinner: New Frontiers of Leadership" at Schatzalp of Davos-Klosters in the evening of the day.
Concluding her tour, Hasina will leave Zurich International Airport for Dhaka at 2:35pm on January 20 and is expected to arrive in Dhaka at 10:15am on January 21.
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