<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today returned home from London after wrapping up her 15-day tri-nation visit to Japan, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK).</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 10:05 am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, the flight departed from Heathrow International Airport, London at 6:25pm on Monday (London time).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On April 25, the prime minister on the first leg of her three-nation visit reached Japan as a special VVIP flight (BG1403) of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying her and entourage members landed at the Haneda International Airport, Tokyo at 4:45pm (local time).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Japan had rolled out a red carpet to welcome the Bangladesh prime minister and gave her the state guard of honour at the airport.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During her stay at Tokyo, Sheikh Hasina and her Japanese counterpart witnessed the exchange of eight instruments, mostly memorandums of understanding, signed between Dhaka and Tokyo to boost cooperation in the sectors of agriculture, metro-rail, industrial up-gradation, ship-recycling, customs matters, intellectual property, defense, ICT and cyber security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On April 26, the premier had a courtesy call on the Emperor of Japan Naruhito. Then on the same day, she held a bilateral meeting with her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier also attended an investment summit and a community reception alongside handing over the "Friends of Liberation War Honour" to four Japanese nationals on April 27 for their contribution to Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister, as well, attended several additional bilateral meetings with Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi as well as leaders of JAICA, JETRO, JEBIC, JBPFL and JBCCEC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She also had meetings with the former late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie Abe and Japanese architect Tadao Ando.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the second leg of her visit, on April 29, the premier arrived in Washington DC wrapping up her four-day official tour to Tokyo in Japan at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During her visit to the United States, the prime minister attended a programme marking 50 years of Bangladesh-World Bank partnership and some side events that include a roundtable with US business leaders and several meetings with WB's incoming President Ajay Banga and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva alongside a civic reception.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On May 4, on the third leg of her visit, the prime minister arrived in London to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as the King and the Queen of the United Kingdom (UK) and the other Commonwealth realms from Washington DC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During her stay in the UK, Sheikh Hasina attended the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen at Westminster Abbey on May 6.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In London, Sheikh Hasina had interaction with King Charles III, and a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">British Foreign Minister James Cleverly along with his wife Susannah Sparks also called on her at her place of residence, the Claridge Hotel in London.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier attended a dinner in honour of her hosted by Bangladesh high commissioner to the UK at the Foyer Private Dining Room of Claridge Hotel on the same day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She had a meeting with Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, Sheikh Hasina had interactions with Presidents of Egypt and Rwanda, Prime Ministers of Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Gambia, Namibia and Uganda in the coronation programme of King Charles III.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Former Prime Minister of UK Tony Blair and Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland also met the Bangladesh prime minister at her place of residence on May 7.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister was accorded a civic reception by expatriate Bangladeshis in the UK at London Marriott Hotel on the same day and she also gave an interview to BBC. 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