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Published on December 2, 2014
Her Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 3:55pm after leaving Dhaka at 10:15am Tuesday.
She was received there by Malaysia’s Deputy Minister of Human Resources Islamail Haji Abdul Muttalib and Bangladesh High Commissioner AKM Atiqur Rahman.
She was given a guard of honour and escorted to the Hotel Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur where she will be staying on the three-day visit.
It is the Awami League chief’s first visit to the Southeast Asian country during her second consecutive term in power, which follows an official invitation by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak a year ago.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor and state minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan are travelling with the prime minister.
PMO press secretary Abul Kalam Azad, foreign secretary Md Shahidul Haque, the prime minister’s media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and her press secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhury were also with her.
A business delegation led by FBCCI President Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed were also on her entourage.
Bangladesh will stress on manpower export and trade gap reduction during the visit, said Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali while briefing journalists on Monday.
Four instruments including agreements and MoUs would be signed, he said.
‘Protocol Amending the MoU of 2012 between Malaysia and Bangladesh on the Employment of Workers’ was being seen as a major one, as it would allow the recruitment of at least 12,000 Bangladesh workers for Sarawak state, outside mainland Malaysia.
The country, a large manpower market for Bangladesh, has about 600,000 Bangladeshis employed at various sectors. It is Dhaka’s the third biggest trade partner in South Asia after India and Pakistan.
Two MoUs may also be signed for cooperation in tourism and cultural affairs, besides a treaty to ease the process for visas.
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