PM Hasina leaves for Jakarta Tuesday to attend Asian-African Summit

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for Indonesia on a three-day official visit on Tuesday to attend the 2nd Asian-African Summit being held in Jakarta.

The summit began on Apr 19 and ends on Apr 24.
 
The prime minister and her entourage will leave by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 10am Tuesday, according to her press wing.
 
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and 50 others including other officials and journalists will accompany her.
 
The summit will be attended by high-level delegations from 77 countries of Asian and African continents along with six international organisations - the United Nations, ASEAN, Asian Development Bank, African Union, Arab League and South Centre.
 
Sheikh Hasina will address both the summit and its plenary session on Apr 22.
 

On the sidelines of the summit, she will also hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Myanmar President Thein Sein, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and Indonesian President Joko Widodo during her stay in Jakarta.

Hasina is scheduled to return home on Apr 23.

The first Asian-African Conference was held in 1955 in the Indonesian city of Bandung in the midst of the emerging cold war.

It turned into new Asian-African Strategic Partnership in 2005.

Indonesia is organising the summit this year in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference.