PM leaves for Davos to attend WEF
BSS
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka yesterday night for Davos on a five-day official visit to Switzerland to join the 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), reports BSS. Executive Chairman of the WEF Prof Klaus Schwab invited her to attend the Forum who would be the first elected Bangladeshi leader to attend the high profile annual global meeting that draws statesmen, top business leaders and the intelligentsia to discuss crucial global issues, foreign ministry sources said. The four-day meeting will be held January 17-20 in Davos, a mountain resort at Graubnden in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland, under the theme Responsive and Responsible Leadership. An Eitihad Airways flight carrying the premier and her entourage members took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:15 p.m.
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhit, Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed, Minister for Road and Bridges Obaidul Quader, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, PMs Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, Chief whip ASM Feroz, Chiefs of three services, cabinet secretary, principal secretary, and dean of diplomatic corps saw the prime minister off at the airport.
The flight is scheduled to reach Zurich International Airport at 6:45 a.m. (local time) on Monday.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the UN Offices Shameem Ahsan will receive the prime minister at the airport.
