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Hasina returns home after ASEM summit in Mongolia
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has flown back home from Mongoloa where she attended the 11th ASEM summit.
Published : 16 July 2016, 04:46 PM
Updated : 16 July 2016, 04:46 PM
A VVIP aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage, touched down at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7:20pm on Saturday.
Ministers, prime minister’s advisers, diplomats and military and civil officials greeted her on her arrival.
Heads of state and government of 11 Asian-European Meeting (ASEM) countries took part in the summit in Ulaanbaatar.
Hasina addressed the second plenary session of the summit on Friday.
She had also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Mynmar President Htin Kyaw, and Indian Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on the sidelines of the summit.
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