PM leaves for Italy today
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Rome today on a four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte.
The PM would hold a bilateral meeting with Giuseppe Conte tomorrow, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.
He said a VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members will take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Rome in the morning today.
The flight is scheduled to land at Fiumicino Airport, Rome at 4:15pm (local time). Minister Plenipotentiary of Italian Foreign Ministry Cristiano Cottafavi and Bangladesh Ambassador to Italy Abdus Sobhan Sikder will receive the PM at the airport.
After the reception, the Bangladesh PM would be taken in a motorcade to Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel and Spa, where she will be staying during her visit to the Italian capital.
Hasina will attend a reception, to be accorded in her honour, at the hotel in the evening.
Tomorrow morning, she will inaugurate the Chancery Building of the Bangladesh Embassy in Rome’s Via Dell’Antartide area.
In the afternoon, the PM will hold bilateral talks with the Italian premier and join an official lunch at Palazzo Chigi, the latter’s official residence.
Later, representatives of the Italian business companies will call on Hasina at the meeting room of Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel and Spa.
The premier will attend a dinner, to be hosted by the Bangladesh ambassador to Italy, at the hotel.
On Wednesday morning, Hasina will have an audience with Pope Francis.
She will depart Rome for Milan by a train at 12:50pm (local time) and reach there at 4:00pm (local time). In Milan, the PM will stay at Excelsior Hotel Gallia.
On Friday, she will leave Milan Malpensa International Airport for home by an Emirates flight at 1:40pm (local time).
Hasina will reach Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:10am (BST) on Saturday via Dubai.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said three bilateral instruments are likely to be signed between Dhaka and Rome during the PM’s visit to Italy.
The proposed deals are on cultural exchange, political consultations and cooperation in the diplomatic field, he told a press briefing at the foreign ministry in Dhaka on Sunday.
The minister hoped that the tour would be beneficial for Bangladesh economy and the country’s ongoing development.
Italy is one of the largest trading partners of Bangladesh. More than 200,000 Bangladeshi expatriates live there.
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