Foreign journos join Pahela Baishakh celebrations

Financial Express Bangladesh

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has brought a group of journalists from 7 countries as part of its public diplomacy to project Bangladesh to the world. The 13 journalists from Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Australia, Egypt, India and Qatar have come as part of the ‘Visit Bangladesh Programme’ of the government. The journalists attend Pahela Baishakh (Bengali New Year) celebrations in Dhaka on Thursday. They had met State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Wednesday. During the trip, they will see Bangabandhu Memorial Museum and Liberation War Museum, and will also visit the Sundarbans. During Wednesday’s meeting, the state minister briefed them on Bangladesh’s history, its Liberation War, its socio-economic development, women’s empowerment and Prime Minister’s Vision 2021, among other things. He replied to their queries and urged them to portray a positive Bangladesh, according to a news agency. -bz