Sheikh Hasina leaves for Jakarta to attend Asia-Africa Summit

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left for Indonesia on a three-day official visit to attend the 2nd Asia-Africa Summit.

 

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The Biman Bangladesh flight carrying the prime minister took off from Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport around 10am on Tuesday.
The flight is expected to land at Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport around 4pm local time.
The summit will be attended by high-level delegations from 77 countries of Asian and African continents along with six international organisations - the UN, ASEAN, ADB, African Union, Arab League and South Centre.
Sheikh Hasina will address both the summit and its plenary session on Apr 22.
On the sidelines of the summit, she will also hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Myanmar President Thein Sein, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and Indonesian President Joko Widodo during her stay in Jakarta.
Hasina is scheduled to return home on Apr 23.
The first Asian-African Conference was held in 1955 in the Indonesian city of Bandung amidst the unfolding cold war.
It was rechristened the new Asian-African Strategic Partnership in 2005.
Indonesia is organising the summit this year to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference.