<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Rome, Italy later this month to discuss bilateral issues and attend the UN Food Systems Summit.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2023 UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment will be held in Rome, Italy on July 24-26 at the premises of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It will be hosted by Italy in collaboration with the Rome-based UN Agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP), the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, and the wider UN system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister is scheduled to be in Rome from July 23, said a diplomatic source.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She is likely to have a bilateral meeting with her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during the visit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM Hasina will speak at the Food System Summit in Rome while her Italy visit is likely to see the signing of half a dozen bilateral documents in the areas of energy, migration, ICT and cyber security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh and Italy have been discussing a possible memorandum of understanding (MoU ) on mobility and migration — to encourage regular migration and prevent irregular ones.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We want to go further in our cooperation on migration issues. In particular, creating and enlarging the existing legal channels or legal pathways for migration while stemming the irregular one,”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Italian Ambassador to Bangladesh Enrico Nunziata told UNB in an interview recently.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The envoy said the two countries have to deepen cooperation for preventing irregular migration, trafficking and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambassador Nunziata recalled one of the deliverables during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Italy in 2020 — reinsertion of Bangladesh in the list of countries whose nationals can benefit from a quota for work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Talking about collaboration in the defence sector, he said there is possibility of collaboration and transfer of know-how as well on a win-win basis. “So this is another important sector.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ambassador said a memorandum of understanding in the cultural sphere for programmes of cultural exchanges is also in the pipeline.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Italian ambassador also said they want to collaborate in the shipbuilding industry for the Navy or Coast Guard by sharing know-how and technologies with Bangladesh. “I mean that level of know-how that Bangladesh has not reached in shipbuilding yet. Together we can do more on that in shipbuilding as well as in other sectors.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2023 UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment will build on the momentum of the 2021 Food Systems Summit and will create a conducive space for countries to review commitments to action that were made during the Summit, share stories of success and early signs of transformation, maintain the momentum for bold acceleration and bold action to further the resilience of food systems, advocate for their adaptation to climate change, ensure they contribute to communities’ resilience to further shocks and crises, and boost the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd24/kh</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div>