US Ambassador at Large arrives Wednesday
Mon Apr 16, 2018 06:12 PM Last update on: Mon Apr 16, 2018 06:52 PM
Republican Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US, February 23, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom of the United States Sam Brownback arrives here on Wednesday on a two-day official visit to discuss religious freedom with government officials, civil society representatives and others concerned.
During his visit, he will travel to Cox's Bazar where he will interact with a group of Rohingya people, who fled to Bangladesh following violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar since August 25 last year.
The Ambassador will come to Bangladesh directly from Turkey where he was traveling since April 13, a foreign ministry spokesperson said here today.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Sam Brownback was sworn in as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom on February 1, 2018.
He served as Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Previously he served as a US Senator (1996-2011) and a US Representative in the House of Representatives (1995-1996) from Kansas.
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