PM Hasina to visit Japan on 25-28 April
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on an official visit to Japan on 25-28 April at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
A number of memorandums of cooperation are expected to be signed during the PM's official visit.
Both the governments of Bangladesh and Japan hope that the visit will further strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries.
Japan wants to elevate the bilateral ties with Bangladesh to a "strategic" level, adding more elements like defence and security areas to the growing relations.
The two countries now have a comprehensive partnership and Japan intends to elevate it.
This will be the sixth visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Japan; she visited Japan in 1997, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2019.
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During her stay in Japan, the prime minister will be received by the Emperor of Japan.
Prime Minister Fumio will hold a summit meeting with the Bangladesh premier and then host a working dinner in her honour.
During the visit, Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to attend an investment summit and a community reception along with a few bilateral meetings.
She will also hand over the Friends of Liberation War Honour to a few Japanese nationals, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The prime minister is likely to visit the US and the UK after wrapping up her Japan visit but there has been no official announcement yet in this regard.
The prime minister has been invited to attend the coronation of UK's King Charles III, to be hosted by Buckingham Palace on 6 May.
She is likely to travel to Washington DC to attend a programme on 1 May to celebrate 50 years of partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank.