PM reaches Glasgow, will address COP26 summit Monday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in Glasgow, the port city of Scotland, on Sunday afternoon on a two-week visit to the United Kingdom and France to attend the COP26 world leaders’ summit and other high-level events.

“A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the Prestwick Airport in Glasgow at 2:55pm (local time) today,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said, BSS reports.

Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem received the Prime Minister at the airport.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid are accompanying the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister, who left the Hazrat Shajalal International Airport in Dhaka for Glasgow at 9:27am today, will return home on November 14.

According to the scheduled programme, she will stay in Glasgow on November 1-2, in London on November 3-8 and in Paris on November 9-13.

The Prime Minister will address the COP26 main event alongside taking part in its inaugural session tomorrow (November 1).

She is expected to inaugurate a roadshow in the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday (November 4) to attract more foreign direct investment in Bangladesh and will attend the “Bangladesh Investment Summit 2021: Building Sustainable Growth Partnership.”

She will also handover the “UNESCO-Bangladesh, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the Creative Economy” at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.