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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka for New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines departed Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:35pm on Friday.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Jatiya Sangsad Chief Whip Noor-e-Alam Liton Chowdhury and State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali were present at the airport to see the prime minister off.
The cabinet secretary, the chiefs of the three services, the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary, the US ambassador to Bangladesh, the UAE ambassador to Bangladesh, the Vatican’s ambassador, and high civil and military officials were present at the airport.
The flight will land at Abu Dhabi International Airport, UAE at 6:30pm.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE Mohammad Imran will welcome her at the airport.
On September 22, the prime minister will depart from Abu Dhabi International Airport for New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport at 10:30am by Etihad Airways. Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE Mohammad Imran will see her off at the airport.
She will arrive at John F Kennedy International Airport at 4:25pm.
Mohammad Ziauddin, the Bangladesh ambassador to the USA, and Masud Bin Momen, ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to the UN, will welcome her there.
On September 23, Sheikh Hasina will co-chair the multistakeholder panel to be held in parallel to the high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage at Ecosoc Chamber. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will also attend the program as co-chair.
The theme of the panel is UHC as driver of equity, inclusive development and prosperity for all.
She might deliver a national statement at the plenary session of the high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage at the Trusteeship Council, deliver a statement at the Climate Action Summit on the theme Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win: A Race We Must Win at General Assembly Hall and attend Recognizing Political Leadership for Immunization in Bangladesh organized by Gavi at Conference Room 1 at the UNHQ.
On September 24, the premier will hold a bilateral meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the Kennedy Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel.
She will have a meeting with Queen Maxima, UN secretary general’s special advocate for inclusive finance for development, at UNHQ Booth, attend a side-event to be hosted by Global Commission on Adaptation at Conference Room 7, UNHQ, State Luncheon hosted by the UN Secretary General at North Delegate’s Lounge.
She will also attend the high-level side-event on the situation of Rohingya minority in Myanmar, organized by the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh and the OIC Secretariat at Conference Room 11 at UN HQ, Leadership Matters- Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in the Contemporary World at ECOSOC Chamber, UNHQ and the Reception by the President of the United States, Donald Trump at Lotte New York Palace Hotel.
On Wednesday, Sheikh Hasina will co-moderate leader’s dialogue 4 on “Localizing the SDGs” at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (SDGs summit) at the Trusteeship Council and “A conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Interactive Dialogue” at Council on Foreign Relations.
On the same day, she will likely hold a meeting with former Australian prime minister and Chair, Sanitation and Water for All Kevin Rudd at the Bilateral Meeting Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel. She will also attend dinner at the Bangladesh House.
On September 26, the prime minister will have meetings with Alex V Volkov, chairman, ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Inc, at the Bilateral Meeting Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel, Irina Bokova at the Bilateral Meeting Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel, Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Bilateral Meeting Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the Bilateral Meeting Room, Lotte New York Palace Hotel and attend Luncheon Roundtable Meeting, organized by the US Chamber of Commerce at the Holmes, Lotte New York Palace.
She is also scheduled for an event “An evening with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina” organized by Unicef at the Labouisse Hall, Unicef House.
On Friday, Sheikh Hasina will attend the high-level side-event on “Sustainable Universal Health Coverage: Comprehensive Primary care inclusive of mental health and disabilities” organized by the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh at the Conference Room 1, UNHQ and address the 74th Session of the General Assembly, General Debate.
She is scheduled to attend a press briefing at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in New York on the morning of September 28.
The premier will then attend a reception accorded to her by the Bangladesh community in New York at Hotel Marriott Marquis in the afternoon.
She will have a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General António Guterres at the UN Secretariat in the evening.
On September 29, the prime minister will leave New York for Dhaka via Abu Dhabi by Etihad Airways at 9pm.
Bangladesh Ambassador to USA Ziauddin and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to UN Masud Bin Momen will see her off at the JFK International Airport.
She will arrive at Abu Dhabi International Airport at 8pm on September 30. From there, she will leave for Dhaka at 10:45pm by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ Special Flight.
Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to reach home at 5:35am on October 1.
Briefing reporters on Wednesday Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will seek expeditious global efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State as the Rohingya issue will come up for discussions during the 74th session of the UNGA.
The foreign minister also hinted holding a meeting with China and Myanmar on the repatriation of Rohingyas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
