PM to make 4 Europe tours this month
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to have a busy schedule this month with four visits to Europe including the current tour to the Netherlands.
The prime minister will also visit France twice and Malta, said sources concerned.
The Prime Minister is now in the Netherlands on a three-day visit till November 6 at the invitation of her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.
Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Paris from November 15-17 to participate in the Leaders Forum of the General Conference convened on the occasion of celebrating the 70th anniversary and adoption of the Constitution of the UNESCO.
According to the sources, although the Prime Minister is going to attend the conference, there is also a bilateral component in that tour. She will have near full-fledged bilateral meeting with the French President during the visit, said sources.
Hasina will fly for Malta to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting there while will be held from November 27-29.
From Malta, the Prime Minister is scheduled to fly to Paris again to take part in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21. She is due to deliver her address at the conference on November 30.
There is strong possibility of a bilateral meeting between Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of COP 21, said the sources.
