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Hasina reaches Phnom Penh amid warm reception

Pays rich tributes to Cambodian martyrs


| Updated: December 04, 2017 11:17:26


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A red carpet was rolled out as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached the Cambodian capital on Sunday.

A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at Phnom Penh International Airport at 12:15 pm (local time).

Cambodian Women Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Pahvi received the Prime Minister at the airport.

Cambodian non-resident Ambassador to Bangladesh Pochkhun Panha and Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Saida Muna Tasneem, who is concurrently accredited to Cambodia, were present at the airport.

Later, the Bangladesh Prime Minister, in a ceremonial motorcade, was taken to Hotel Sofitel.

She will stay here during her three-day visit to Cambodia.

After taking rest at the hotel, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to Cambodian martyrs by placing a wreath at the Independence Monument.

Later, the Prime Minister paid homage to Cambodian late King Norodom Sihanouk by laying a wreath at his memorial.

The Premier was given a static guard of honour by the Cambodian armed forces.

According to BSS, Sheikh Hasina later visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. The museum is situated in the heart of Phnom Penh chronicling the Cambodian genocide.

On Monday, the Prime Minister will hold official talks with her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen. Before the talks, the two Prime Ministers have a tete-a-tete.

Later, 11 instruments -- two agreements and nine memorandums of understanding (MoUs) -- would be signed between Bangladesh and Cambodia in the presence of the two Prime Ministers.

The naming of two important roads in Dhaka and Phnom Penh after the Father of the Nation of both the countries will be announced at the function where Sheikh Hasina and Hun Sen will speak at a joint press statement.

She will join a business dialogue as the chief guest to be arranged by the Cambodian Chamber and attend the official dinner to be hosted by the Cambodian Prime Minister.

Wrapping up her three-day official visit to Cambodia, the Prime Minister is scheduled to return home on the afternoon of December 5.

Earlier, a VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:35am for the Cambodian capital.

Bangabandhu's younger daughter Sheikh Rehana, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak, PM's Principal Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, Chief Coordinator on the SDG Affairs at the Prime Minister's Office Md Abul Kalam Azad, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Huq and PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim, among others, are accompanying the Prime Minister.

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