UNB, Dhaka :Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrives here on Friday night on a three-day visit, said a senior Foreign Ministry official on Tuesday.Sharma is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discuss future programmes of the Commonwealth. The Foreign Minister will host dinner in honour of the Commonwealth Secretary General on Saturday. The meeting between them will be held in the morning on the same day, said the official.The fourteenth Meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers (CFAMM) will take place in New York on September 24. The Foreign Ministers will meet in New York to discuss a range of Commonwealth priorities.The CFAMM will also provide the opportunity to bring Foreign Ministers the update on the preparations being made for CHOGM 2015.Sharma became Commonwealth Secretary-General on April 1, 2008 having been appointed to the post by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their meeting in Kampala, Uganda in November 2007.She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1965, and served at ambassadorial level in five missions, including as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, where he was closely involved in Commonwealth affairs.He was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva 1988-1990, and acted as the spokesperson for developing countries in the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks.
