Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen is scheduled to visit Jakarta in Indonesia and Bangkok in Thailand from July 12 to 17 to attend separate events there.
The minister is scheduled to leave for Jakarta Tuesday night, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told UNB.
Momen will attend the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta while he will attend a retreat in Bangkok on July 17 which will be hosted by the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to exchange views on regional issues as well as ways to move the 25-year old organisation forward.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the next BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok later this year.
The sixth BIMSTEC Summit will be held in November in Bangkok in which Bangladesh will assume the chairmanship of the regional grouping.
The foreign minister is scheduled to return home on July 18.
