Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay an Official Visit to Japan from 25 April to 28 April at the invitation of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to a press release from the Ministry of foreign affairs of Bangladesh.
During her stay in Japan, the Prime Minister will be received in the audience by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan, will hold a summit meeting with the Prime Minister and then host a working dinner in her honour.
The Government of Japan sincerely welcomes the visit of the Prime Minister, and hopes that this visit will further strengthen the friendly relations between Japan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of foreign affairs.
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.
Several 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 was supposed to make this trip in November last year, which was postponed due to the spread of corona infection. She visited Japan in 1997, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2019.
