PM to leave for US today to attend UNGA

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave here on Friday on a two-week official visit to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and other engagements with a likely stopover in Helsinki, Finland.

As per her schedule, the Prime Minister will leave for New York from Helsinki, Finland on September 19 after her stopover there on September 17-18.

She will stay in New York from September 19-24 to attend the UNGA where she is likely to address on September 24.

Wrapping up her official visit to New York, the Prime Minister will visit Washington DC where she will stay from September 25 to 30.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to leave Washington for Dhaka on September 30 and will return home on October 1 after a stopover in Finland.

This is going to be Prime Minister Hasina’s first overseas visit since the outbreak of the Covid-19 in March 2020.

Sheikh Hasina is expected to focus on the issues of equity in vaccine sharing, climate change and Rohingya crisis at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Covid-19 vaccines should be a public good without any discrimination, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday sharing the key engagements of the Prime Minister.

Dr Momen said the Prime Minister will address the UNGA on September 24 and she will deliver her speech in-person.

He said Bangladesh will host a side event on Rohingya crisis where many countries are expected to voluntarily join. Dr Momen said there will be a number of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UNGA.