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Foreign minister leaves Dhaka to visit three Europe countries

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Published: 22:46, 29 August 2021  
Foreign minister leaves Dhaka to visit three Europe countries

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen (File photo)

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday (August 29) started his journey to visit to three countries of Europe aiming to boost cooperation on tackling the challenges of Covid-19, climate change and migrants.

He will hold the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Asia-Pacific Regional Review meeting on Monday and Tuesday in preparation to the LDC conference to be held in Doha in January next year.

Bangladesh, as co-chair of LDC, has been negotiating at multilateral forums for various privileges, according to foreign ministry.

He will hold meetings with the director generals of six multilateral bodies – World Health Organization, UN Refugee Agency, UN Human Rights Council, International Organization for Migration and International Labour Organization.

The minister is also likely to hold a bilateral meeting with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.

Following the visit to Switzerland, Foreign Minister Momen will be visiting UK where he will hold bilateral meeting with his UK counterpart Dominic Raab.

He will also meet COP26 President Alok Sharma to discuss climate change ahead of the COP26 to be held between November 1 and 12 in Glasgow under the presidency of UK.

Following the visit to UK, Momen will fly to The Netherlands to attend the governing body meeting of Global Center on Adaptation (GCA). Bangladesh, as a host of the GCA regional centre, is attending the meeting before the COP26.

Momen will return to Bangladesh on September 8.

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