UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Japan on Thursday morning to attend the ‘G7 Outreach Programme’ that begins at Ise-Shima, the holiest place in all of Japan’s thousands of shrines, on the same day.
Bangladesh is giving ‘high importance’ to the visit as Prime Minister is
likely to have a number of meetings with G7 leaders on the sidelines of the Summit.
Members of the G7, established to facilitate economic cooperation among the world’s largest industrial nations, are Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will brief the media on Prime Minister’s visit to Japan on Wednesday afternoon, said an official at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. The Prime Minister is scheduled to return home on May 30 after her four-day visit to Japan. Heads of state and government of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam are also invited to the outreach meeting. Hasina also attended a similar event held in Italy in 2001.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Japan on Thursday morning to attend the ‘G7 Outreach Programme’ that begins at Ise-Shima, the holiest place in all of Japan’s thousands of shrines, on the same day.
Bangladesh is giving ‘high importance’ to the visit as Prime Minister is
likely to have a number of meetings with G7 leaders on the sidelines of the Summit.
Members of the G7, established to facilitate economic cooperation among the world’s largest industrial nations, are Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will brief the media on Prime Minister’s visit to Japan on Wednesday afternoon, said an official at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. The Prime Minister is scheduled to return home on May 30 after her four-day visit to Japan. Heads of state and government of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam are also invited to the outreach meeting. Hasina also attended a similar event held in Italy in 2001.
