Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave home Tuesday on a 15-day official tour to Japan, the USA and the UK, while Dhaka is expected to sign around eight deals with Tokyo during the visit.
"In the presence of the two prime ministers [Bangladesh and Japan], nearly eight memorandums of understanding (MoUs) are likely to be signed between the two countries," foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said in a curtain raiser briefing at the foreign ministry on Monday.
He said the deals on agriculture, metro rail, industrial upgrade, ship recycling, customs matters, intellectual properties, defence cooperation, ICT and cyber security cooperation will be signed during the visit to Japan.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a special flight from Biman Bangladesh Airline at 7:45am Tuesday and on the same day she is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo at 5pm (local time).
Momen said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay a courtesy call on Emperor of Japan Naruhito on April 26.
On the same day, she will hold a bilateral meeting with her Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida after the signing of the deals.
The meeting will conclude with a dinner at the residence of the prime minister of Japan, said the foreign minister.
During the visit to Japan, Sheikh Hasina is also scheduled to attend an investment summit and a community reception.
She will also hand over the "Friends of Liberation War Honour" to four Japanese nationals for their contribution to Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971, Momen said.
The prime minister will arrive in the United States from Tokyo to attend the ceremony, marking a 50-year partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank in Washington DC on May 1.
On May 4, Momen said, she would leave Washington for London to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
The prime minister will leave London for Dhaka on May 8.
State Minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam also spoke at the briefing.
