PM departs Canada for New York

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday left Canada for New York concluding her four-day visit to Canadian city of Montreal and began the second leg of her 11-day tour to North American countries with a busy schedule.

An Air Canada flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members took off from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at 2.10 pm local time while it is scheduled to reach La Guardia Airport of New York at 3 pm (New York time) on Sunday.

During her stay in New York, she will co-chair a roundtable on ‘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.’

The Prime Minister will join the ‘Asian Leaders’ Forum on Countering Terrorism’ to be hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 20, reports BSS.

She 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 UN headquarters.

Sheikh Hasina is expected to attend the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees to be organised by US President Barak Obama apart from a reception to be hosted by the US president for world leaders joining UNGA.

She will also attend a luncheon reception to be hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN headquarters. On September 21, 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 Lo’fven.

The premier will attend the Meeting of High-level Panel on Water. Bangladesh community will accord a reception to the Prime Minister on September 21 at Hotel Grand Hyatt.

On the next day she will address a press conference at Permanent Mission of Bangladesh in New York on Sept 22. On the sidelines of the UNGA schedule, Sheikh Hasina will also hold bilateral meetings with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann, Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Janet Scotland, Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

On September 22, the Prime Minister will leave New York for Virginia and on September 25, she would depart Dulles International Airport, Washington DC for home by an Emirates Airways flight. She is scheduled to back home via Dubai on September 26 afternoon. Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on September 14.