Bangladesh News

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here last night for Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, to attend the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Hasina is leading a high-profile Bangladesh delegation to the conference.

During her five-day stay in Copenhagen, the PM will attend the Joint High-Level Segment of COP and CMP at Bella Centre in the Danish capital. The same day, she will attend a community reception in the evening.

She will also join the second day’s Joint High-Level Segment of COP and CMP, luncheon for heads of delegation and ministers hosted by UNFCC executive secretary

She will also join a dinner hosted by the Queen of Denmark and the Prince Consort for the Heads of State and Government at Royal Palace on December 17.

Hasina will attend the opening session of the Copenhagen summit on climate change where the Danish prime minister and the UN secretary general will make statements on December 18. The opening session will be followed by informal thematic discussion.

Later, the PM will attend the plenary meeting at Bella Centre to adopt the agreed outcome on the same day. She will join a luncheon to be hosted by Danish premier on December 18.

Apart from joining of different events of the conference that will pave the way to find out ways and means to tackle the grim challenges of climate change, the Bangladesh premier will hold bilateral talks with world leaders on the sidelines of the conference.

Hasina will leave Copenhagen on December 20 and return home on December 21.

The PM’s delegation includes Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud, Ambassador-at-Large M Ziauddin, PM’s Principal Secretary MA Karim and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad.