PM arrives in Dammam
UNB
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived yesterday evening on a nine-day official visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom, reports UNB. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage, which left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 4:40pm, landed at Dammam King Fahd International Airport at 7:35 pm local time. Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Golam Moshi received her at the airport.
During the two-nation visit, the Prime Minister will attend the concluding ceremony of a joint military exercise named Gulf Shield-1 at Dammam of Saudi Arabia and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London.
She will join the concluding ceremony of Gulf Shield-1 at the invitation of Saudi King and Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud.
In Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Hasina will take part in a parade apart from the concluding ceremony of the joint military exercise in the Eastern Province of Al-Jubail on April 16.
After attending the concluding ceremony, Hasina will leave Dammam for London at 5pm on tomorrow by a special flight.
The flight is scheduled to land at Heathrow International Airport in London at 10:30pm local time.
On April 17, the Prime Minister will attend the Commonwealth Women Forum as a presenter at a session on Educate to empower: making equitable and quality primary education and secondary education a reality for girls across the Commonwealth in the morning at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster.
Sheikh Hasina will join a high-level programme to be organised by Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a prestigious think-tank of the UK, in the afternoon. She will be the keynote speaker on Development Progress of Bangladesh: Policy, Progress and Prospect at the programme.
