PM leaves London for New York today -The Asian Age
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in London en route to New York on a weeklong official visit to the United States to attend the 73rd Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier landed at Heathrow Airport in London at 3:50pm local time on Friday.
After making nearly two-day stopover in London, the Premier will leave London for New York on Sunday morning by a British Airways flight.The flight is scheduled to reach Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, at 1:40 pm local time.
The Prime Minister will address the UNGA Session on September 27 evening and hold a meeting with UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres on the same day.
General Antonio Guterres on the same day.
On the sidelines of the UNGA, she will also hold bilateral meetings with a number of world leaders, including Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Sheikh Hasina will attend a Welcome Reception to be hosted by US President Donald J Trump, while US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to call on her.
This year's theme of the general debate is 'Making the United Nations relevant to all people: Global leadership and shared responsibilities for peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies'.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will place some specific proposals at the UNGA in continuation of her previous five-point proposal for resolving the Rohingya crisis, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka on Thursday.
On the first day of her visit to the USA, Sheikh Hasina will attend a reception to be accorded to her by the Bangladesh community in the United States at Hotel New York Hilton Midtown in the evening.
Apart from the Rohingya issue, the Prime Minister will also discuss world peace, safe migration, the rights of Palestine people, women empowerment and climate change, the foreign minister said.
"She will also present Bangladesh's different socioeconomic advancements, including establishment of digital Bangladesh and the country's ongoing democratic process to world leaders," he said.During the UNGA, Mahmood Ali said, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will receive two awards.
He said Inter Press Service (IPS), a global news agency, will give its prestigious 'International Achievement Award' to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her dynamic and farsighted leadership in addressing Rohingya crisis while Global Hope Coalition will confer her '2018 Special Recognition for Outstanding Leadership Award'.The prime minister will return home in the morning on October 1 via London.