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Published : Friday, 17 September, 2021 at 8:44 PM  Count : 986

PM reaches Helsinki on way to New York

PM reaches Helsinki on way to New York


Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Finland's capital Helsinki on her way to New York in the United States to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

A VVIP Chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at the Vanta International Airport in Helsinki at 3:37pm local time.
Md Nazmul Islam, Ambassador to Finland (Non-Resident) received the Prime Minister at the airport.

Sheikh Hasina made the stopover at Helsinki for two days.
She will leave Vanta International Airport of Helsinki at 4:00pm (Finland time) for New York on Sunday (September 19) by a VVIP flight BG-1902 of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and is scheduled to reach John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, USA at 6:00pm local time the same day. Then she will start joining the sessions from September 20.

Earlier, a flight of Biman left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for Helsinki around 9:23am.

This is the premier's maiden foreign tour after one and a half years since she visited Italy in February 2020.

The prime minister will stay in New York from September 19 to 24 as part of an official visit to attend the UNGA and a number of high-level events there.

During her stay in New York, Sheikh Hasina will address the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters on September 24.

The prime minister will present her address in Bangla like the previous years following the footprint of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who had delivered his historic speech at the UN in Bangla in 1974.

On September 20, Sheikh Hasina will attend a closed-door meeting with a small group of heads of state or government on climate change to be convened by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Later, she will plant a tree and dedicate a bench at the UN Gardens in North Lawn of the UN Headquarters in honour of  Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his birth centenary.

In the afternoon, the prime minister is scheduled to join a virtual programme titled "Sustainable Development Solutions Network".

On September 21, Sheikh Hasina will join the General Debate's opening session of the at the UN Headquarters, while she will also attend the 'Business Roundtable: US-Bangladesh Business Council' to be organized by Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA.

On September 22, the premier will join a high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.

Besides, she will participate in the 'White House Global Covid-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better and is expected to deliver a speech in the event.

In the afternoon on that day, Sheikh Hasina will attend a High Level side event on 'Rohingya crisis: Imperatives for a sustainable solution' and is expected to deliver a pre-recorded speech there.

On September 23, the prime minister will attend an Event of Leaders' network on 'delivering on the UN common agenda: Action to achieve equality and inclusion' to be organised by Swedish Mission to the UN.

She will also join the Food systems Summit as part of the decade of action to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030 to be convened by the UN Secretary General at the UN Headquarters.

On the sidelines of the UNGA in New York, Sheikh Hasina will hold bilateral meetings with a number of world leaders.

They include Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Barbados Ms. Mia Amor Mottley Q.C., Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, President of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and President of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phyc.

Besides, she will hold bilateral talks with UN Secretary General Antinio Guterres and President of EU Council Charles Michel.

The prime minister is scheduled to visit Washington D.C. from September 25-30 after her participation in the UNGA session and other events in New York.

After wrapping up her US visit, Sheikh Hasina will leave Washington for Dhaka on September 30 and will return home on October 1 following a stopover in Helsinki.

SZA


● PM off to USA to join 76th UNGA






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