POBNEWS24, Dhaka, Sept 17, 2023 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka to attend the 78th United Nations General Session in New York. He left for New York on a special flight of Bangladesh Biman on Sunday (September 17).
Prime Minister’s Assistant Press Secretary ABM Sarwar-e-Alam Sarkar said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has started her journey to the United States on Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-201 (Sonar Tari) to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The flight carrying the Prime Minister left at 10:12.
After a four-hour layover at London’s Heathrow Airport, the flight is scheduled to land at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at 10:50 PM local time on September 17. Bangladesh Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Muhammad Abdul Muhith and Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran will receive the Prime Minister at the airport.
The Prime Minister will attend the high-level general discussion on the first day of the 78th General Assembly session at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters on September 19. He will address the General Assembly session on September 22 between 1pm and 2pm local time. The Prime Minister will also attend the dinner hosted by US President Joe Biden.
Apart from attending the General Assembly session, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend several high-level bilateral and courtesy meetings on Rohingya crisis and climate change, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), universal health and finance.
World leaders will gather in New York to attend the 78th session. The theme of this international conference is ‘Rebuilding Trust and Restoring Global Solidarity: Taking Action to Implement the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals by Accelerating Peace, Prosperity, Progress and Sustainability for All’.
The Prime Minister is expected to deliver the keynote address at a high-level conference on ‘Thinking Food – Collaborating to Accelerate SDGs on Food Supply Chain Innovation’ organized by UNIDO and Deloitte at Rockefeller Center in New York on September 18. He will also address another conference titled ‘SDG Summit-Leaders’ Dialogue 4 (Strengthening Integrated Policy and Public Institutions to Achieve SDGs)’ at the Trusteeship Council Chamber on the same day.
This evening, the Prime Minister gave a high-level private address on the occasion of the UN 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit organized by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Global Education and WHO Envoy for Global Health Financing, Gordon Brown, and Sarah Brown, Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education, at the Lexington Venue in New York. Can attend dinner.
The Prime Minister will also address a high-level roundtable meeting on ‘Towards a Fair International Financial Architecture’ between the Prime Minister of Spain and the President of the European Council and the European Union (EU) at the CR-16 of the UN Headquarters on September 19.
On the same day, he will also attend a high-level side event on medical service-based community clinics jointly organized by Bangladesh, Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, China, Malaysia, Chatham House and Suchana Foundation at CR-11 at the UN Headquarters.
The Prime Minister will be the keynote speaker at a high-level discussion at the Trusteeship Council Chamber on Financing for Development (FFD) on ‘Enhancing Affordable and Accessible International Public Finance for Sustainable Development and Ensuring Efficiency’ with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on September 20.
