Prime Minister Sheikh returned home on Friday night from Colombo, wrapping up her two-day visit to the Sri Lankan capital to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), 2013.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her 47-member entourage, landed at the Shahjalal International Airport at 11:45pm.
Cabinet members, senior party leaders and civil and military officials received the Prime Minister at the airport.
During her stay in Colombo, the Prime Minister on Friday addressed the Executive Session of the CHOGM, 2013 as the first speaker on the special CHOGM theme ‘Growth with Equity: Inclusive Development’, underscoring the need for rectifying different impediments to ensure justice and fair treatment with genuine global partnership to the developing and vulnerable economies for real progress of the developing partners.
She also suggested the Commonwealth to take a proactive role in advancing inclusive development in its member states.
The Prime Minister also had meetings with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa when she showed Bangladesh’s interest to cultivate agricultural lands in Sri Lanka to produce diversified agricultural products like jute, rice and vegetables in the down-south and east of Sri Lanka as it earlier requested Bangladesh to use its north western province Puttalam for jute cultivation on long-term basis.
Sheikh Hasina also held meeting with her New Zealand counterpart John Key. During the meeting, they hoped that the Commonwealth would advocate and promote the interests of developing countries.
Source: UNB Connect
