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PM returns home Thursday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home tomorrow from Paris wrapping up her three-day official visit to France to attend the One Plane Summit.

An Emirates flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members is scheduled to leave Charles De Gaulle International Airport in Paris at 9:35 pm local time (2:35 am BST Thursday) , reports BSS.

Bangladesh Ambassador to France Kazi Imtiaz Hossain will see the prime minister off at the airport.

Via Dubai, the prime minister will arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon.

The Bangladesh premier joined the "One Planet Summit" in Paris at the invitation of its co-organizers -- French President Emmanuel Macron, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

Over 100 world leaders along with 2,000 participants from non-governmental organisations, foundations, and public and private sectors attended the summit at La Seine Musicale, a music and performing arts center, located at Ile Senguin island in the western suburbs of the French capital on Tuesday.

The prime minister held a bilateral meeting with President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on Tuesday morning.

She also joined a lunch hosted by the French president for the heads of the state and government, co-organizers and VIPs of the summit at Elysee Palace.

In the afternoon, the prime minister attended a community reception at Intercontinental Paris Le Grand.

On Wednesday, Sheikh Hasina joined a breakfast meeting with top French business leaders at the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand.