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PM reaches Doha

South-South Summit starts today

UNB, Doha
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was accorded a warm reception when she arrived at Doha International Airport yesterday.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage, landed at the airport in the afternoon.
The prime minister drove in a ceremonial motorcade to Hotel Four Seasons, where she will stay during her trip to attend the two-day second South-South summit in Doha beginning today.
Khaleda will address the summit titled "Development Challenges Facing the South" today highlighting the crucial issues of zero tariff
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market access to the developed nations.
She will be among more than 50 heads of state or government to attend the two-day Doha Summit.
The prime minister will lead a 31-member delegation to the summit, aimed at promoting the G77 collective interests and enhancing its negotiating capacity on major internal economic issues.
On the sidelines of the summit, Khaleda will have bilateral meetings with the Emir of Qatar, the prime minister of Malaysia and the king of Nepal.
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan and Foreign Secretary Hemayetuddin are now in Doha attending the pre-summit meetings.
Foreign ministry officials here said the Doha Summit, a follow-up of Havana Summit held in 2000, is expected to forge a strong coalition on inter-related issues of aid and trade, which are important for the developing and the least developed nations.
The summit bears special significance as it takes place ahead of a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September in New York and also the WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December.
It will seek international support to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
The summit will adopt the Doha Declaration and Doha Plan of Action.
The prime minister left Dhaka for Qatar at 2:27pm (BST).
Ministers, diplomats and senior civil and military officials saw off the prime minister at the VVIP tarmac of Zia International Airport.
She is expected to return home on June 16.