Dipu Moni joins NAM meet tomorrow

After attending the first meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Commission in New Delhi today, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will travel to Egypt to join the NAM Ministerial Meeting and then fly to Turkmenistan to attend an OIC meeting on Muslim refugees.
Today, she is scheduled to call on Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at 5:30pm. She will also meet Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Home Minister P Chidambaram, said foreign ministry officials.
The opening ceremony of the two-day Ministerial Meeting for the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will be held at the Red Sea resorts, Sharm-el-Sheikh, tomorrow.
A meeting of senior NAM officials kicked off yesterday.
During her stay, Dipu Moni will hold bilateral meetings with Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Amr on Thursday and is expected to meet ministers of NAM member states, said the officials. As of 2012, the NAM has 120 member states.
On Thursday, Dipu Moni will fly for Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, to attend the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) sponsored two-day international ministerial conference on “Refugees in the Muslim World”, beginning on May 11.
The conference's main objective is to highlight OIC's support for member states as they assist large-scale refugee populations and the mandate and responsibility of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) towards refugees.
The conference will announce the new vision towards refugees of the Islamic world and the preparation of a new memorandum, which includes a study on the main reasons behind the phenomenon of refugees, said the officials.
The conference also aims at promoting awareness on the scope and nature of the refugee problem in the Islamic world.