Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay arrived here on Saturday for a two-day state visit, and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus greeted him warmly.
The interim government’s leader, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, welcomed the Bhutanese premier to the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Earlier, a Drukair jet carrying Tobgay and his entourage members arrived at the airport at 8:15 am, he said. The two leaders met briefly in the airport’s VVIP lounge, when Prime Minister Tobgay enquired about the damage and loss of life caused by Friday’s earthquake and offered his condolences to the victims’ families.
Following the meeting, Tobgay was led to a makeshift saluting dais, where he received a 19-gun salute and a guard of honour. Following the airport ceremony, the Bhutanese Prime Minister travelled to the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, to pay tribute to the martyrs of Bangladesh’s Liberation War.
He will pay honour to the martyrs by planting wreaths on the memorial altar and signing the visitor’s book. Tobgay will plant a Bakul sapling at the memorial site.
Bangladesh’s foreign advisor, Md Touhid Hossain, and commerce advisor, Sk Bashir Uddin, are due to visit the Bhutanese leader in the afternoon before he meets with Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus at his office in the city’s Tejgaon neighbourhood about 3:00 pm.
Prime Minister Tobgay will also attend a formal banquet in his honour this Saturday evening.
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