Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for New Delhi on Friday on a three-day visit to India at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage, will take off Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning. The flight is scheduled to land at Palam Airport, New Delhi at 1:15pm, according to official schedule.
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Hours after her arrival in New Delhi PM Hasina will hold a bilateral meeting with Modi on Friday evening. Several important bilateral issues are expected to be discussed in the meeting, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen while briefing reporters on Thursday.
“Three memorandums of understanding (MoUs) --on cooperation in agriculture research, cultural exchange programmes, easing transactions between BDT and Indian Rupee (the common people of the two countries)-- are expected to be signed before the bilateral meeting,” he said.
Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to arrive at the residence of the Indian PM for the bilateral meeting and hold a tête-à-tête with her host there from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.
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The Bangladesh PM will address two sessions of the G-20 Leaders’ Summit, which is going to be kicked off at Bharat Mandapam Centre, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi with the theme of ‘One Earth, One Family and One Future’ on Saturday (September 9).
In the two sessions titled ‘One Earth’ and ‘One Family,’ she will focus on different challenges like climate change in the global south, post-Covid-19 economic recovery, and disruption of the global supply of fuel, food and fertilizers and other essential commodities due to the ongoing war in Europe. She will also raise the experience of Bangladesh's incredible success in various socio-economic fields to the world leaders participating in the conference.
On the sideline of the summit, the premier is expected to meet four to five leaders of other countries (on Saturday), said Momen.
There is a possibility of (holding bilateral) meetings with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Argentinian President Alberto Angel Fernandez, UAE President Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he said.
India, being the president of G-20, invited nine countries including Bangladesh to the G-20 Leaders Summit as guests, which are being held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10. The G20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam and State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, among others, will accompany the premier during her visit.
On September 10 (Sunday), the prime minister will return home in the afternoon, leaving New Delhi by a chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at 12:30pm.