Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Morocco on Thursday morning after wrapping up her three-day official visit to the North African country to attend the high-level segments of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22) also known as the global climate summit.
A vvip flight (bg-1020) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8.15 am.
The three-day high-level segments of COP-22 of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were held in Morocco’s former imperial city of Marrakech from Nov 15-17. Heads of state and government from 80 countries including Bangladesh and senior ministers from 115 countries took part in the COP-22.
The Bangladesh premier joined the inaugural session of the conference along with other heads of state and government on November 15.
Sheikh Hasina delivered her statement at the high-level segments of COP-22 on the opening day of the summit highlighting Bangladesh’s position to address the climate challenges and calling for global efforts to address the issue of climate-induced migrants to make the objectives of SDGs successful.