President returns home this afternoon

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DHAKA, March 7, 2020 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid will return home this
afternoon wrapping up his 11-day official visit to Uruguay and London.

“A regular aircraft of Qatar Airways carrying the President and his
entourage members is expected to land at Hazrat Shahjalal (r) International
Airport at 4:40 pm today,” President’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad
told BSS today.

During the visit, the head of the state, besides attending the Uruguayan
Presidential Command Transfer Ceremony at Montevideo, joined some other
private programmes in London.

Ashequn Nabi Chowdhury, the press minister of Bangladesh High Commission in
London, told BSS that the President left Heathrow International Airport,
London, for Dhaka by a flight of Qatar Airways at about 2030 hrs (London
time) yesterday.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Saida Muna Tasneem
and senior embassy officials saw the President off at the airport.

Earlier, Abdul Hamid left Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport, Dhaka
on February 26 by a VVIP flight of Emirates Airlines.