BSS, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Amsterdam today on a three-day official visit to the Netherlands at the invitation of her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members is scheduled to take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 8 am.
The flight is expected to reach Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Centre in the Dutch capital at 9 pm (Netherlands time). On her way to Amsterdam, the Premier will make a five-hour stopover in Abu Dhabi.
After a reception at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Centre, the Prime Minister will be taken to Grand Hotel Amrath Kurhaus in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands, through a ceremonial motorcade. She would stay in the hotel during her visit.
During her visit, the Prime Minister will hold bilateral talks with Dutch Premier Mark Rutte at his official residence “Catshuis” on November 4.The talks would be followed by signing of bilateral instruments. Later, Sheikh Hasina will join a dinner to be hosted in her honour by Mark Rutte.
Earlier on November 4, the Prime Minister will call on Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the Royal Palace.
Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen and Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz will call on the Prime Minister at the Kurhaus Hotel.
Sheikh Hasina will take part in a discussion on “Delta Plan 2100” with the Dutch ministers and join a luncheon the same day.
On November 5, the Prime Minister will join a business seminar at the Kurhaus Hotel. She will visit Koornstra & Co that trades fruits and vegetables from selected growers and importers all year-round, and Tomatoworld, a greenhouse that produces 50 varieties of tomatoes.
Sheikh Hasina will attend a community reception to be accorded by Bangladeshi diaspora in the Netherlands at the Kurhaus Hotel.
The Prime Minister will depart Amsterdam for home on the night of November 5. She is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 6 pm on November 6 via Abu Dhabi. Addressing a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry on Sunday, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said the visit of the Prime Minister to the Netherlands would focus on bilateral cooperation in implementing Bangladesh Delta plan and land reclamation and accretion in the Bay of Bengal.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Amsterdam today on a three-day official visit to the Netherlands at the invitation of her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members is scheduled to take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 8 am.
The flight is expected to reach Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Centre in the Dutch capital at 9 pm (Netherlands time). On her way to Amsterdam, the Premier will make a five-hour stopover in Abu Dhabi.
After a reception at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Centre, the Prime Minister will be taken to Grand Hotel Amrath Kurhaus in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands, through a ceremonial motorcade. She would stay in the hotel during her visit.
During her visit, the Prime Minister will hold bilateral talks with Dutch Premier Mark Rutte at his official residence “Catshuis” on November 4.The talks would be followed by signing of bilateral instruments. Later, Sheikh Hasina will join a dinner to be hosted in her honour by Mark Rutte.
Earlier on November 4, the Prime Minister will call on Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the Royal Palace.
Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen and Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz will call on the Prime Minister at the Kurhaus Hotel.
Sheikh Hasina will take part in a discussion on “Delta Plan 2100” with the Dutch ministers and join a luncheon the same day.
On November 5, the Prime Minister will join a business seminar at the Kurhaus Hotel. She will visit Koornstra & Co that trades fruits and vegetables from selected growers and importers all year-round, and Tomatoworld, a greenhouse that produces 50 varieties of tomatoes.
Sheikh Hasina will attend a community reception to be accorded by Bangladeshi diaspora in the Netherlands at the Kurhaus Hotel.
The Prime Minister will depart Amsterdam for home on the night of November 5. She is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 6 pm on November 6 via Abu Dhabi. Addressing a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry on Sunday, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said the visit of the Prime Minister to the Netherlands would focus on bilateral cooperation in implementing Bangladesh Delta plan and land reclamation and accretion in the Bay of Bengal.
