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President off to Geneva to attend investment summit
DHAKA, Oct 22, 2018 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid left here early today
for Geneva on a five-day official visit to Switzerland to join the summit of
the ‘World Investment Forum 2018’.
Finance minister AMA Muhith, Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu, dean of
diplomatic crops, Swiss Ambassador in Dhaka, chiefs of three services,
principle secretary and other high civil and military officials saw the
President off at the VVIP Lounge of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
(HSIA).
“An aircraft of Emirates Airline carrying the President and members of his
entourage took off from Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport at around
2.03 am today,” President’s deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad confirmed
the BSS.
The five-day summit will be held on October 22-26 at Palais des Nations in
Geneva, the United Nations Headquarters in Europe and a global hub for
diplomacy and banking, under the theme “Investing in Sustainable
Development”.
The flight, on his way to Geneva, is scheduled to reach Dubai International
Airport at 4:30 am (local time) on Monday. The President will make a 10-and-
a-half-hour stopover in Dubai, he said.
Later, the President will be flown by another aircraft to reach Cointrin
Airport, Geneva, at 7:50 pm (local time).
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