Prime Minister set to fly USA today
NTV Online
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Canada’s Montreal on Sunday for New York after winding up her four-day official visit to Canada to attend the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund (GF).
The prime minister paid the visit to Canada at the invitation of her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau.
Sheikh Hasina will visit the USA from 18-25 September to join the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other related events.
The prime minister will deliver her statement at the General Debate of the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly at the General Assembly Hall in the afternoon on 21 September.
An Air Canada flight carrying Sheikh Hasina and her entourage members is scheduled to take off from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Montreal for New York at about 1:40pm (Montreal time) on Sunday.
The flight is scheduled to reach La Guardia Airport, New York at 3 pm (New York time) the same day.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin and Bangladesh Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Masud Bin Momen will welcome the prime minister at the airport.
After the reception at the airport, the premier will be escorted by a ceremonial motorcade to Hotel Waldorf Astoria, New York where she will be staying during the visit.
On 19 September, Sheikh Hasina will deliver country statement in a High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants at the UN headquarters.
She will co-chair the Roundtable-5 ‘Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration: Towards Realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Achieving Full Respect for the Human Rights of Migrants.’
On 20 September, Sheikh Hasina will attend the opening session of the General Debate of the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly.
She will later join the ‘Asian Leaders’ Forum on Countering Terrorism’ to be hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Hotel Marriot Eastside.
The Bangladesh premier will also attend a side-event on South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Scaling up Innovation in Public Service Delivery to be organised by Bangladesh, UN Office for South-South Cooperation at the Conference Room 2 of the UN headquarters.
The primer is expected to join the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees to be organised by US President Barak Obama. She is likely to attend a reception to be hosted by Barak Obama.
On 21 September, the Bangladesh prime minister is scheduled to join the Launching Event of the Global Deal Initiative on enhanced social dialogue for decent work and inclusive growth to be organized by Swedish Premier Stefan Lofven.
She will attend the Meeting of High-level Panel on Water at the Conference Room 8 of the UN headquarters.
She will attend a reception to be organized by the Bangladesh community at Hotel Grand Hyatt, New York on 21 September and address a press briefing at Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in New York on 22 September.
On the sidelines of the UNGA, Sheikh Hasina will hold bilateral meetings with a number of world dignitaries including State Counsellor and Foreign Minister of Myanmar Aung Saan Suu Kyi, Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann as well as Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Janet Scotland, Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
On 22 September, the premier will leave New York for Virginia by road and on 25 September, she would depart Dulles International Airport, Washington DC for home by an Emirates Airways flight.
The flight carrying Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka via Dubai at 5:20 pm (BST) on 26 September.