PM interacts with King Charles, Rishi Sunak on eve of coronation
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday afternoon attended the Commonwealth Leaders Event in London.
The event started at 2:00pm local time (7:00pm Bangladesh Time) at Marlborough House of the Commonwealth Secretariat at Pall Mall.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. On her arrival in the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Bangladesh premier was received by Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland.
In the event, Sheikh Hasina interacted with King Charles III, head of the Commonwealth at the Delegate's Lounge.
She also exchanged pleasures with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak there.
Sheikh Hasina also attended the Commonwealth leaders' closed discussion at the Main Conference Room there, which will be chaired by President of Rwanda and Commonwealth Chair in Office Paul Kagame.
In the evening, she will attend the King's reception for heads of states, governments and overseas representatives at Buckingham Palace in advance of the coronation of the King and the Queen Consort.
Later, Professor Payam Akhavan will call on PM Hasina at the bilateral room of the Claridge's Hotel.
Akhavan is professor of International Law and Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and former legal advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
PM Sheikh Hasina arrived in London on an official visit to the UK from Washington in the early hours of Friday to attend the coronation of UK's King Charles III, to be hosted by Buckingham Palace on May 6. She will represent Bangladesh at the ceremony.
It will be held at Westminster Abbey on May 6 and the King, who will be crowned along with the Queen Consort, will be the 40th reigning monarch crowned there since 1066.
The PM is expected to return home on May 9, concluding her 15-day three-nation visit to Japan, the USA and the UK.
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