PM returns home
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this evening after wrapping up her three-day official visit to Mongolia to attend the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and members of her entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7:20 pm, reports state-run BSS.
Ministers, advisers to the PM, chiefs of the three services, the dean of the diplomatic corps and high civil and military officials were present at the airport to receive the Premier.
The two-day 11th Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM11, Summit) held at Shangri-La Hotel in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar with the theme ‘20 years of ASEM: Partnership for the Future through Connectivity’.
Presidents and vice presidents from 11 countries, prime ministers from 23 countries including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 16 foreign ministers as well as the presidents of European Council and European Commission and secretary general of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took part in the two-day summit, which was the highest-level international event Mongolia has ever hosted.
The Bangladesh Premier joined the opening, concluding and retreat sessions of the ASEM Summit as well as two plenary meetings.
In the second plenary, she made a statement on the theme ‘Promoting ASEM Partnership of Greater Connectivity’.
On the sidelines of the summit, Sheikh Hasina held bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela Markel, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Myanmar President Htin Kyaw, Indian Vice President M Hamid Ansari, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev, Dutch Premier Mark Rutte, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj while Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni Silveri called on her.
ASEM is a forum of 51 Asian and European countries and two regional organizations founded for deepening relations between Europe and Asia at all necessary levels to achieve a more balanced political and economic world order.
Bangladesh joined the forum in 2012.
The exclusively Asian-European forum was officially established on 1 March 1996 at the first summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
