During the trip, the prime minister held bilateral talks with her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte and met the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, in Vatican City. The flight carrying Hasina and her entourage from Milan landed in Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8am on Saturday. She inaugurated the Bangladesh Embassy’s Chancery Building at Via Dell'Antartide on Wednesday morning before holding a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Conte at his official residence Palazzo Chigi in the afternoon. Later, she joined a dinner hosted by Bangladesh Ambassador Abdus Sobhan Sikder after a meeting with an Italian business delegation at the Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel. Hasina then visited the Vatican to meet Pope Francis on Thursay.

Source: bd News24 February 08, 2020 06:00 UTC