Dhaka: Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn arrived here on Monday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.

The Princess is leading an 11-member high-profile Thai government delegation to visit philanthropic projects she set up in Bangladesh in 2011 under her father, late King Bhumibols’s Royal Chai Pattana Foundation, reports the UNB.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam received the Thai Princess at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on her arrival in the afternoon. Bangladesh Ambassador in Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem was present.

Shahriar who attended funeral of Sirindhorn’s father had a brief discussion with the Thai Princess at the airport.

On the first day, she visited Liberation War Museum in the city and took a tour of different galleries of the Museum.

Officials at the Museum described the brutalities carried out by Pakistan army during 1971 Liberation War.

The Thai Princes also attended dinner hosted by Thai Ambassador in Dhaka.

During her four-day visit to Bangladesh, the Princess is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and exchange views with Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury and Culture Minister Asaduzzaman Noor and other dignitaries, officials said.

The princess is also scheduled to visit various ongoing royal projects in Bangladesh, under the Royal Chaipattana Foundation including public health and sanitation projects for school children, sustainable agriculture projects for farmers in Bangladesh and the Sufficiency Economy Learning Centre at the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation—all under the ‘Sufficiency Economic Philosophy’ pioneered by her late father King Bhumibol.

She will also inaugurate a new environmental conservation project taken in collaboration with the Environment and Forest Ministry of Bangladesh, titled “Bangladesh-Thailand Vetiver Grass Development Project to prevent hill erosion in Chattogram” on May 30 at Tiger Pass in Chattogram City.

The Thai Princess is also scheduled to visit the Ethnological Origins Museum in Chattogram and meet autistic and special children at the Proyash Institute of Special Education in Dhaka Cantonment, meet children and farmers at the Azampur Government Primary School, Uttara, Mariali Government Primary School, Gazipur and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation in Dhaka.

She will also attend dinner to be hosted by Foreign Minister Ali in her honour.