FROM NAY PYI TAW: Development activities of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have inspired opposition leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Myanmar opposition leader made the observation in a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the country’s parliament complex on Monday.   

Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi said Myanmar can learn many things from Bangladesh. She applauded the Bangladeshi premier for her outstanding leadership in the country.  

Sheikh Hasina’s personal assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil was talking to banglanews after meeting.  

Earlier in the noon, the Bangladeshi premier met with Myanmar President Thein Sein at Presidential Palace in Myanmar capital.

Sheikh Hasina reached Myanmar on Monday morning to attend the 3rd BIMSTEC Summit to be held in its capital city Nay Pyi Taw on March 4.  

A special flight of Bangladesh Biman, national carrier of the country, carrying the premier with 32-member delegation landed Nay Pyi Taw around 10:15am (Myanmar local time).

U Aye Myint, Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Security, welcomed her at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport.

During the time, children and girls, wearing their traditional dresses, greeted the premier at the airport.

On the sidelines of the summit, Sheikh Hasina will hold bilateral meetings with her counterparts of the BIMSTEC member-countries, including India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.

Memorandum of Association (MoA) on the Establishment of BIMSTEC Permanent Secretariat in Dhaka, Memorandum of Association (MoA) on the Establishment of BIMSTEC Centre for Weather and Climate in India and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the BIMSTEC Culture Industries Commission and BIMSTEC Cultural Industries Observatory to be set up in Bhutan are expected to be signed during the summit.

The premier is scheduled to return home on Tuesday night.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organization involving a group of countries, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal, was formed in 1997.

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BDST: 1950 HRS, MAR 03, 2014