DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus flew to Beijing yesterday for his first state visit.
The 84-year-old Nobel laureate will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow before returning on Saturday after several other high-level meetings.
Yunus took charge of Bangladesh last August after the toppling of autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, who fled to New Delhi after a student-led uprising. “Muhammad Yunus has chosen China for his first state visit and with this Bangladesh is sending a message,” Dhaka’s top Foreign Ministry bureaucrat Mohammad Jashim Uddin told reporters.
Several agreements are expected to be signed on economic and technical assistance, cultural and sports cooperation, and media collaboration between the two countries.
