FROM NEWYORK:  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would likely to reach in the United States on September 23 to attend the 68th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Premieres from more than 150 countries will attend the assembly to discuss about the future proceedings after 2015 and the slogan for the world’s biggest meet was set as ‘Post 2015 agenda: setting the stage for future’.

Permanent representative for Bangladesh mission at UN Dr A K Abdul Momen talked with banglanews about the preparations and Bangladesh’s stand on the upcoming general assembly.

Dr A K Abdul Momen said Sheikh Hasina is likely to attend the inaugural session of the Assembly on September 24.

She will not attend the meet titled "The way forward: a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond" on September 23 as no premier will address it.

The primer will attend four events on September 24 and a special event to follow up 2013, efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on September 25.

Sheikh Hasina will be present at High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament on September 26. Abdul Momen added.

On September 27, she will bestow speech at around 3.00pm in Bangla like previous years and she will join a reception to be accorded to her by members of Bangladesh community in US on September 28.

The prime Minister along with her high profile delegation team will fly for home on September 28 as per the schedule.

UNGA, the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the 193-member United Nations, meets in regular session from September to December each year for multilateral discussion on international issues covered by its Charter.

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