PARIS, Nov 9, 2021 (BSS) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was
accorded a warm and rousing reception at Elysee Palace on the first
day of her visit here today.

   The Presidential Guard gave the Prime Minister salute on her
arrival at the Presidential Palace.

   French President Emmanuel Macron later received Sheikh Hasina. Then
both the leaders went upstairs. They posed for photo sessions twice -
during the reception and while going upstairs.

   They went for luncheon meeting and tete-a-tete after making brief
statements.

   Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, Education Minister Dr Dipu
Moni, PM's Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikau, Foreign Secretary
Masud Bin Momen and Bangladesh Ambassador Khandaker Mohammad Talha
accompanied the Prime Minister.

   The Republican Guard later gave the Bangladesh premier the state
guard of honour.

   In the evening, the Prime Minister had a bilateral meeting with
French Prime Minister Jean Castex at his official residence the
Matignon.

   Sheikh Hasina arrived Paris from London this morning to attend the
75th Anniversary of UNESCO and distribute the first-ever
UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International
Prize for Creative Economy.

   During her stay in Paris, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury and Dassault
Aviation president Eric Trappier, Thales president Patrice Caine will
call on her at her place of residence on Wednesday.

   She will have a meeting with the French business organisation
MEDEF's high-profile delegate.

    Later in the afternoon, she will visit the French Senate where she
will receive an official reception during the ongoing Senate Session.

   On November 11, Sheikh Hasina will attend the Paris Peace Forum.

   Later, she will go to attend the UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the Creative Economy at
the UNESCO Headquarters. From there, she will go to Elysee Palace to
attend the dinner to be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in
her honour.

   On November 12, Sheikh Hasina will go to the Paris Peace Forum and
attend a high-level panel discussion on South-South and Triangular
Cooperation.

   Later she will go to the UNESCO Headquarters to attend the
inaugural session of the 75th Founding anniversary of UNESCO and she
will deliver her speech there.  She will participate in the dinner to
be hosted by UNESCO director general Audrey Azoulay in honour of the
heads of the government and state.

   On November 13, Sheikh Hasina will attend a civic reception to be
accorded to her by the expatriate Bangladeshis living in Paris.

   At 4pm (local time), she will depart De Gaulle International
Airport by a VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and land at
Hazrat Shahjalal Airport at 10 am (local time) on November 14.

   Earlier, on November 3, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in
London, the capital of the United Kingdom, from Glasgow after
attending the World Leaders Summit at the COP26 and other events.

   On October 31, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Glasgow on a
two-week visit to the United Kingdom and France.