Hasina to visit Sweden, Qatar next week

ANIS ALAMGIR
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave Dhaka on October 20 on a week-long visit to Sweden and Qatar.
Sources at the foreign ministry said the Prime Minister will be in Sweden from October 21 to 25 during which she will attend a three-day European Development Days (EDD) conference to be opened in Stockholm on October 22.
Besides attending the opening and other sessions, Sheikh Hasina is due to address the plenary session on 'The Climate Change: Road to Copenhagen' on 24 October.

On her way back the Prime Minister will pay a one-day visit to Qatar on October 26 for talks with Qatari authorities.
During her week-long sojourn, Sheikh Hasina will lead a 40-member official team. State minister for Envioranment Hasan Mahmud, BNP MP and Chairman parliamentary standing committee on environment Abdul Momin Talukdar will accompany her, among others. At the EDD confrence in Stockholm, Grammen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus and Editor of the Daily Star Mahfuz Anam are also scheduled to attend. A galaxy of world leaders, including Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, President of Burkina Faso, Prime Minister of Haiti, President of Liberia, President of Sierra Leone, Prime Minister of Kenya will attend the conference. It will be hosted by host Prime Minister Reinfeldt Fredrik of Sweden.
Sources said the upcoming Stockholm summit will be part of the international efforts to address the global pressing climate change issue ahead of the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The Copenhagen meeting is expected to produce a new, comprehensive and effective international response to climate change threatening the world.

Prime Minister Hasina is also scheduled to attend the Copenhagen Conference in December to press home Dhaka's demand for compensation to mitigate the climate change loss to Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasian is expected to return home on October 27 night from Qatar where she will call on Amir of Qatar and hold meeting with the expatriate Bangladeshis.
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published 14-10-2009, the independent