UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here on Thursday afternoon for Baku on a four-day official visit to Azerbaijan to attend the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
The two-day summit of NAM, a forum of 120 developing countries, will be held at Baku Congress Centre in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku on October 25-26.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Baku at 4pm.
The flight is scheduled to land at Baku Heydar Aliyev International
Airport at 8:55 pm (local time) the same day. Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Mahmud Ahmed Oglu Mammad-Guliyev and Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey M Allama Siddiki will receive her at the airport.
After the reception at the airport, a ceremonial motorcade will escort the Prime Minister to Hilton Baku, where she will be staying during her Azerbaijan tour.
Sheikh Hasina will join the welcome ceremony of the 18th NAM Summit at Baku Congress Centre this morning. Along with other NAM leaders, the Bangladesh Prime Minister will attend the opening ceremony of the summit at the Plenary Hall of Baku Congress Centre.
She will later join the working luncheon for the heads of delegations at the Luncheon Hall of the centre, and the Plenary Session. In the evening, Sheikh Hasina will attend the official reception to be hosted by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at Heydar Aliyev Centre. On Saturday, she will join the Plenary Session, the Working Luncheon for the heads of delegation and the Closing Ceremony of the summit.
She will attend dinner to be hosted at Hilton Baku by the Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey who is concurrently accredited to Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here on Thursday afternoon for Baku on a four-day official visit to Azerbaijan to attend the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
The two-day summit of NAM, a forum of 120 developing countries, will be held at Baku Congress Centre in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku on October 25-26.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Baku at 4pm.
The flight is scheduled to land at Baku Heydar Aliyev International
Airport at 8:55 pm (local time) the same day. Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Mahmud Ahmed Oglu Mammad-Guliyev and Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey M Allama Siddiki will receive her at the airport.
After the reception at the airport, a ceremonial motorcade will escort the Prime Minister to Hilton Baku, where she will be staying during her Azerbaijan tour.
Sheikh Hasina will join the welcome ceremony of the 18th NAM Summit at Baku Congress Centre this morning. Along with other NAM leaders, the Bangladesh Prime Minister will attend the opening ceremony of the summit at the Plenary Hall of Baku Congress Centre.
She will later join the working luncheon for the heads of delegations at the Luncheon Hall of the centre, and the Plenary Session. In the evening, Sheikh Hasina will attend the official reception to be hosted by Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at Heydar Aliyev Centre. On Saturday, she will join the Plenary Session, the Working Luncheon for the heads of delegation and the Closing Ceremony of the summit.
She will attend dinner to be hosted at Hilton Baku by the Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey who is concurrently accredited to Azerbaijan.
