PM Hasina to meet Angela Merkel during Munich Security Conference

MNA Editorial Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the upcoming the Munich Security Conference.

The Prime Minister will leave for Germany on Thursday morning to attend the conference which is known as the “best think-tank conference” in the world.

This will be her first overseas visit after coming to power for the third consecutive term, reports bdnews24.com.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen briefed reporters about the bilateral meeting on Wednesday.

He said the prime minister was the first Bangladeshi leader to have attended this “prestigious” conference in 2017.

This year Sheikh Hasina was invited again to talk in two sessions — “climate change as a security threat” and “health security”.

Hasina will speak on the Rohingya crisis during her designated slot to speak as a head of state.

“We are expecting that there will be a bilateral meeting with the German chancellor,” Momen said.

Besides, he said the global president and CEO of Siemens AG and the CEO of Veridos GmbH which is implementing an e-passport project in Bangladesh will meet the prime minister separately.

The minister said a joint development agreement can be signed with the Siemens that has proposed to make a big investment in the power sector.

The prime minister will return Dhaka on Feb 20 after her visit to the UAE from Feb 17-19.