Thailand's Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has arrived in Dhaka on a four-day visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
The princess, along with 11-member high-profile Thai government delegation, arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Monday afternoon.
Sirindhorn will visit philanthropic projects she set up in Bangladesh in 2011 under her father, late King Bhumibols's Royal Chai Pattana Foundation, reports UNB.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam received the Thai Princess at the airport while Bangladesh Ambassador in Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem was present.
Shahriar who attended the late King Bhumibol’s funeral had a brief discussion with the Thai Princess at the HSIA.
During the visit, the Princess is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and exchange views with Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury and Culture Minister Asaduzzaman Noor and other dignitaries.
She is also scheduled to visit various ongoing royal projects in Bangladesh, under the Royal Chaipattana Foundation including public health and sanitation projects for school children, sustainable agriculture projects for farmers in Bangladesh and the Sufficiency Economy Learning Centre at the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation -- all under the 'Sufficiency Economic Philosophy' pioneered by her late father King Bhumibol.
During the visit, the Thai Princess is also scheduled to inaugurate a new environmental conservation project taken in collaboration with the Environment and Forest Ministry of Bangladesh, titled "Bangladesh-Thailand Vetiver Grass Development Project to prevent hill erosion in Chattogram" on May 30 at Tiger Pass in Chattogram City.
The princess is also scheduled to visit the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka, the Ethnological Origins Museum in Chattogram and meet autistic and special children at the Proyash Institute of Special Education in Dhaka Cantonment, meet children and farmers at the Azampur Government Primary School, Uttara, Mariali Government Primary School, Gazipur and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation in Dhaka.
She will also attend dinner to be hosted by Foreign Minister Ali in her honour.
