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PM off to UAE to join Dubai Air Show


Bangladeshpost
Published : 17 Nov 2019 01:37 PM | Updated : 05 Sep 2020 09:03 AM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Dubai on Saturday on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes, reports BSS.

The premier will visit the UAE at the invitation of its ruler Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashed al Maktoum.

An Emirates flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka for Dubai at 6.45pm.

The flight is scheduled to reach Dubai International Airport at 10.10 pm (local time) where Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE Mohammad Imran will receive the premier.

After the reception at the airport, a ceremonial motorcade will escort the premier to Shangri-La Hotel in Abu Dhabi, where she will be staying during her visit to the UAE.

On November 17, Sheikh Hasina will attend the opening ceremony of the Dubai Air Show -2019, one of the largest and most successful air shows in the world and the biggest aerospace event in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, at Dubai World Central (Dubai Al Maktoum Airport) in the morning.

She will later the flying display in the afternoon at Dubai World Central.

As many as 87,000 participants and 1,300 exhibitors from all over the world are expected to gather at Dubai World Central – Dubai’s airport of the future.

The biennial air show will once again take over the skies of Dubai on November 17-21, and is expected to surpass the feats of Dubai Airshow 2017, which concluded with an order book worth more than $113.8 billion and welcomed 79,380 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors from 63 countries.

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