BSS, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for Phnom Penh on Sunday morning on a three-day official visit to Cambodia.
The premier will pay the visit at the invitation of her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen as Dhaka hopes it (visit) would help strengthen bilateral cooperation in the important sectors between the two Asian nations.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members will take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday morning for the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
The flight is scheduled to reach Phnom Penh International Airport at 12:30 pm (Cambodia time) same day.
The minister-in-waiting appointed by Cambodian premier Hun Sen, and Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand and concurrently accredited to Cambodia Saida Muna Tasneem will receive the Prime Minister at the airport.
After the reception at the airport, a ceremonial motorcade will escort Sheikh Hasina to Hotel Sofitel, where she will be staying during her visit to Cambodia.
In the afternoon, the Bangladesh premier will place wreaths at the Independence Monument at Phnom Penh.
She will also lay wreaths at the Royal Memorial Statue of Late King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk.
The Prime Minister will join a dinner to be hosted by the Bangladesh
ambassador to Cambodia. Bangladesh community living in Cambodia will also
attend the function.
On Monday, the Prime Minister will hold official talks with her Cambodian
counterpart Hun Sen. Before the talks the two premiers have a tete-a-tete.
Later, 11 instruments — two agreements and nine memorandums of
understanding (MoUs) — will be signed between Bangladesh and Cambodia in the
presence of the two prime ministers.
The naming of two important roads in Dhaka and Phnom Penh after the
Father of the Nation of both the countries will be announced at the function,
while Sheikh Hasina and Hun Sen will later deliver a joint press statement.
The Bangladesh Prime Minister will have a royal audience with King of
Cambodia Norodom Sihamon and will separately call on Cambodian Senate
President Say Chhum and National Assembly President Heng Samrin.
Sheikh Hasina will join a business dialogue as the chief guest to be
arranged by the Cambodian Chamber and attend the official dinner to be hosted
by the Cambodian premier.
Wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia, the Prime Minister
will return home in the afternoon on December 5.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for Phnom Penh on Sunday morning on a three-day official visit to Cambodia.
The premier will pay the visit at the invitation of her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen as Dhaka hopes it (visit) would help strengthen bilateral cooperation in the important sectors between the two Asian nations.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members will take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday morning for the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
The flight is scheduled to reach Phnom Penh International Airport at 12:30 pm (Cambodia time) same day.
The minister-in-waiting appointed by Cambodian premier Hun Sen, and Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand and concurrently accredited to Cambodia Saida Muna Tasneem will receive the Prime Minister at the airport.
After the reception at the airport, a ceremonial motorcade will escort Sheikh Hasina to Hotel Sofitel, where she will be staying during her visit to Cambodia.
In the afternoon, the Bangladesh premier will place wreaths at the Independence Monument at Phnom Penh.
She will also lay wreaths at the Royal Memorial Statue of Late King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk.
The Prime Minister will join a dinner to be hosted by the Bangladesh
ambassador to Cambodia. Bangladesh community living in Cambodia will also
attend the function.
On Monday, the Prime Minister will hold official talks with her Cambodian
counterpart Hun Sen. Before the talks the two premiers have a tete-a-tete.
Later, 11 instruments — two agreements and nine memorandums of
understanding (MoUs) — will be signed between Bangladesh and Cambodia in the
presence of the two prime ministers.
The naming of two important roads in Dhaka and Phnom Penh after the
Father of the Nation of both the countries will be announced at the function,
while Sheikh Hasina and Hun Sen will later deliver a joint press statement.
The Bangladesh Prime Minister will have a royal audience with King of
Cambodia Norodom Sihamon and will separately call on Cambodian Senate
President Say Chhum and National Assembly President Heng Samrin.
Sheikh Hasina will join a business dialogue as the chief guest to be
arranged by the Cambodian Chamber and attend the official dinner to be hosted
by the Cambodian premier.
Wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia, the Prime Minister
will return home in the afternoon on December 5.
