Former Sri Lankan president Kumaratunga meets Prime Minister Hasina

Former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has met Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina at her official residence, the Ganabhaban.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 24 May 2017, 10:54 AM
Updated : 24 May 2017, 10:54 AM

Kumaratunga arrived Dhaka on May 21 on a four-day visit to attend a programme of London-based Global Leadership Foundation.
 
After the meeting on Wednesday, Press Secretary to the PM Ihsanul Karim said they discussed various matters relating to mutual interests and different aspects of their political parties.
 
Kumaratunga, the former chairman of Sri Lankan Freedom Party, has served as the South Asian country's president from 1994 to 2005.
 
PM Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is the president of the ruling Awami League.
 

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Founder of the both parties Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and Sri Lankan leader Solomon Bandarnaike, Kumaratunga's father, were brutally assassinated and both the parties were subject to repression and torture for long time.
During the meeting, Hasina told Kumaratunga that people of all faiths are living peacefully in Bangladesh and that they take part in every festival together.
She told the former Sri Lankan president that her administration successfully resolved the ethnic problem in the Chittagong Hill Tracts without intervention of any third party.
International Affairs Adviser to the PM Gowher Rizvi was also present during the meeting.