Dhaka Bureau: The President will attend the East Asia Summit in the first week of September organized by ASEAN, an alliance of Southeast Asian countries. Sahabuddin. The head of state is scheduled to visit Jakarta on September 5. This will be his second foreign visit as President. Recently, diplomatic sources in Dhaka and Jakarta have confirmed that the President will attend the East Asia Summit in Jakarta. According to diplomatic sources, Indonesia is currently serving as the chair of ASEAN.
The country is the host country of the 18th East Asia Summit. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the conference to be held in Jakarta on September 7. But the head of government is not going to Jakarta due to attending the G-20 summit to be held in New Delhi soon. That is why it has been decided to join President Sahabuddin’s conference considering Dhaka’s support and relations with ASEAN. It is also known that the President will go to Jakarta on a two-day visit to attend the East Asia Summit. He will leave for Jakarta from Dhaka on September 5.
He will make a statement as a special guest of ASEAN at the summit on September 7. Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the conference, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Mission in Jakarta are working on the meeting of the President with the heads of state of some countries besides Indonesian President Joko Widodo. After all the formalities, President Sahabuddin is scheduled to return to Dhaka on September 8. In 2005, the first East Asia Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. 16 countries of Seva attended the conference. The United States and Russia attended the Sixth East Asia Summit held in Bali, Indonesia for the first time. Last year, the 17th East Asia Conference was held in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
