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PM to visit Turkey on April 9-12

Rezaul Karim
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will fly to Turkey on April 9 on a four-day official visit aiming to boost bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, health, culture and connectivity.
During her trip, the two countries will make several deals on promoting bilateral trade and investment, introduction of direct air service between Dhaka and Ankara and opening of direct banking network, said foreign ministry sources.
The prime minister will visit the Eurasian country at the invitation of her counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Both the sides have finalised the signing of an agreement to facilitate foreign direct investment and have been working on securing another deal, under which Turkey will increase its annual credit limit to Bangladesh from $100 million to $250 million.
Hasina will request TUrkish President Abdullah Gul for lifting the safeguard duty on Bangladeshi readymade garments (RMG).
The Eurasian country in September last year imposed 17 per cent safeguard levy on the RMG imports from the least devel-oped countries (LDC) including Bangladesh.
This provision made Bangladesh suffer the most as it was a leading RMG exporter to TUrkey and had been enjoying duty-free access as an LDC, mentioned foreign ministry officials.
During the official talks between the two countries, the visiting delegation will persuade Ankara for assisting the construction of 500 community clinics in Bangladesh, prompt registration of Bangladeshi pharmaceutical products in TUrkey and importing vaccines from Bangladesh.
According to an agreement signed during the Turkish prime minister's visit to Dhaka in 2010, Ankara will fund $11.50 million to construct the community clinics.
Besides, Dhaka may ask Ankara to establish an international vocational training institute in Bangladesh to ensure smooth supply of skilled manpower for the garments, textiles, design and fashion industries of both the countries, maintained the officials.
Under youth cooperation programme, Dhaka will seek Ankara's support for providing sports instruments for Bangladesh Krira Shiksha Protisthan (BKSP) and training of professional players and coaches in TUrkey.
Bangladesh will also seek duty-free market access of its jute and jute goods. TUrkey imported jute and jute goods from Bangladesh worth $ 1.7 million in the 2010-11 fiscal year.
The two countries have already agreed to raise the bilateral trade volume to at least $3 billion by 2015 from the current level of below $1 billion.