Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn arrives here today (Monday) on a four-day royal visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
The Princess will lead an 11-member high profile Thai government delegation to visit philanthropy projects she set up in Bangladesh in 2011 under her father, late King Bhumibols’s Royal Chai Pattana Foundation.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam will receive and welcome the Thai Princess at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on her arrival in the afternoon.
During her four-day visit to Bangladesh, the Princess is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and exchange views with Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury and Culture Minister Asaduzzaman Noor MP and other dignitaries.
The princess is also scheduled to visit various ongoing royal projects in Bangladesh, under the Royal Chaipattana Foundation including public health and sanitation projects for school children, sustainable agriculture projects for farmers in Bangladesh and the Sufficiency Economy Learning Centre at the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation all under the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy pioneered by her late father King Bhumibol.
