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3-Day Visit

PM flies to KL today

Diplomatic Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flies to Kuala Lumpur this morning on a three-day official visit to seek recruitment of more Bangladeshis and expansion of trade and investment.
She is leading a 100-member high-profile delegation composed of four ministers, a state minister and 35 leading businessmen, among others.
The PM will have a bilateral meeting with her Malaysian counterpart Najib bin Abdul Razak in Putrajaya tomorrow. The meeting will discuss ways to strengthen ties in export, trade, investment, tourism, higher education and cultural sectors. Some regional and international issues of mutual interest will also be up for discussion.
Foreign ministry sources said the PM's entourage will include the foreign minister, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan, officials of Prime Minister's Office and different ministries, 16 members of the PMO media team and two prominent journalists.
Businessmen in the PM's delegation usually bear their tour costs themselves.
Briefing the press on the tour, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at the ministry yesterday said the official talks will be followed by signing of four instruments.
The deals are: Protocol Amending the Moll of 2012 between Malaysia and Bangladesh on the Employment of Workers, MoU between Bangladesh and Malaysia on
Cooperation in the Field of Tourism, Agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia on the Partial Abolition of Visa Requirements and MoU between Bangladesh and Malaysia on Cultural, Arts and Heritage Cooperation.
Malaysia is one of the largest labour markets for Bangladesh as some 4.50 lakh Bangladeshis are working there with a good reputation, said the minister, adding that Dhaka will have a special focus on boosting manpower export to Malaysia.
He said 2.25 lakh illegal Bangladeshi workers were legalised by the Malaysian government in 2010-11. Bangladesh will also discuss legalising its remaining undocumented citizens, ifany.
The bilateral talk is expected to focus on how to reduce the yawning trade gap between the two countries through more Malaysian investment in Bangladesh, mentioned Mahmood Ali.
According to statistics, Malaysia invested nearly $1.7 billion in 103 projects, including engineering and service sectors, which employed more than 17,000 Bangladeshi workers.
Hasina will also meet Malaysian investors to encourage them to invest more in Bangladesh. Malaysian business and investment
proposals will be discussed at the meeting.
Dhaka, said the minister, will discuss relocation of Malaysian sunset industries to Bangladesh as Italian companies expressed an interest in doing so after the prime minister's visit to Milan, Italy.
Queried by a journalist on the recent theft of passport booklets, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said actions have been taken against some officials at the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur following the theft of 600 Machine Readable Passport booklets there as per recommendations by an inquiry committee.
Asked about the committee's recommendation on taking steps against the Bangladesh envoy to Malaysia, he said the high commissioner will reach his normal retirement age soon.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, DG (Southeast Asia) Ashud Ahmed, DG (South Asia) Tareq M Ariful Islam and DG (EP) Noor-e Helal Saifur Rahman were present, among others.
This will be Hasina's third visit to Malaysia as the prime minister after her two previous trips there in 2000 and 2010. She is expected to return home on December 4.