President Mohammed Shahabuddin returned home on Saturday evening wrapping up his 13-day visit to Indonesia and Singapore.
A VVIP aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the president and his entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6.35pm.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, cabinet secretary, principal secretary to the Prime Minister's Office, dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Indonesian ambassador to Bangladesh, chiefs of the three services, inspector general of police and high civil and military officials received the president at the VVIP lounge of the airport.
The flight took off from Changi International Airport in Singapore at 04:22pm (Singapore time) on Saturday.
The president flew to Singapore from the Indonesian capital Jakarta on September 8. He left Dhaka for Jakarta on a commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited on September 4.
In Indonesia, President Shahabuddin attended the 43rd "ASEAN Summit", the 18th "East Asia Summit" and other several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the three-day summits at the Jakarta Convention Centre (JCC) from September 5-7.
At the invitation of his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo (Jokowi), who was also the chair of the 43rd summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN, Bangladesh's President went to Jakarta where he stayed for five days from September 4-8.
The president attended the 43rd ASEAN summit and other related summits under the chairmanship of Indonesian President Jokowi.
With the theme of "ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth", President Shahabuddin, along with his wife attended the summit's opening ceremony in the morning of September 5.
Chairperson of Bangladesh National Advisory Committee on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Saima Wazed and Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen also accompanied the president there.
The opening ceremony of the 43rd ASEAN Summit was not only attended by 10 organizational leaders from ASEAN countries and some state leaders, heads of the states and the governments, but partner countries also participated in it.
Hosts country Indonesia has invited as many as 27 world leaders and international bodies, the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank for Jakarta ASEAN Summit, said ASEAN secretary general.
The president also held separate bilateral meetings with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo and the Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Dr Salman Al Farisi on September 6.
On the sidelines of the Summit, the Bangladesh President attended the 18th "East Asia Summit (EAS) and delivered his speech as the chair of guest on September 7.
He raised different south ASEAN issues focusing on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar coinciding with the problems that Bangladesh is now facing centering the repatriation of forcibly displaced 1.2 million Myanmar nationals who have taken shelter in Bangladesh's territory a seven-year back.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the event, the Bangladesh President exchanged greetings with some world leaders.
They are- Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, United States Vice President Kamala Harris, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh and Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Sonexay Siphandone.
