Turkish PM meets Hasina


FE Team | Published: December 19, 2017 17:03:29 | Updated: December 19, 2017 21:45:38


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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Yildirim started his two-day visit to Bangladesh to observe the plight of the Rohingya refugees.

Hasina greeted the Turkish prime minister with flowers after he arrived at her offices around 3pm on Tuesday. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali was also in attendance.

After a tour of the offices, Yildirim and Hasina sat for a private meeting. Delegations from Turkey and Bangladesh will later meet for bilateral talks led by the two prime ministers.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials say the two will discuss the Rohingya crisis, bilateral trade and investment. Two agreements between the countries may also be signed.

Yildirim arrived in Dhaka for his official visit on Monday night. On Tuesday morning he went to pay his respects to the martyrs of the Liberation War at the National Monument in Savar. He then went to the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum to pay his respects to independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhanmondi.

Yildirim is to travel to the Bangabhaban to meet President Md Abdul Hamid Tuesday evening. He will then attend a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in his honour, as per bdnews24 report.

Yildirim will travel to Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday morning. He will then visit the Kutupalong Rohingya camp before returning to Dhaka and flying back to Turkey that same day.

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