Staff Reporter:
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman returned home this morning after concluding his five-day visit to New York to attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where he delivered his maiden address to the General Debate and held a series of high-level bilateral and multilateral meetings.
“An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister, his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman and members of his en-tourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:21 am yesterday,” PM’s Press Wing said .
Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni, Prime Minister’s Defence Adviser Brigadier General (retd) AKM Shamsul Islam, Whip Miah Nuruddin Ahmad Apu, local MP SM Jahangir Hossain, Cabinet Secretary Nasimul Ghani and Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar received the Prime Minister at the airport.
The Prime Minister left Dhaka on September 21 and reached New York the same day after a stopover in Istanbul. He left New York on September 25 and reached Dubai before continuing his journey for home.
During his four working days in New York, Tarique Rahman took part in 30 engagements — 11 bilateral meetings with countries around the world, eight UNGA-related engagements and 11 institutional en-gagements while he and members of his entourage together represented Bangladesh at around 80 en-gagements.
