President Emmanuel Macron is arriving today (September 10) evening in Bangladesh after attending the G20 Leaders Summit held in India.
Macron is the first leader to visit Bangladesh since former French President Mitterrand visited Bangladesh on 22 to 24 February, 1990.
The visiting French president will first pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 on Monday morning.
Late, the president will hold a meeting with PM Hasina at Prime Minister’s Office on Monday morning and join a dinner on Sunday evening.
After that, the two leaders are expected to sign couple of bilateral agreements and hold a joint press briefing.