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Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, also the Chairperson of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s (CPU) executive committee, left Dhaka for CPA headquarters in London yesterday evening.
The CPA chairperson will perform her official work there for the first time, said a press release today.
Besides, at the invitation of the World Health Organization (WHO), she will take part in a two-day programme “Stakeholder Meeting: Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health” in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday, the release added.
Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) ASM firoz, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry Imran Ahmed, senior secretary of the Parliament Secretariat Md Ashraful Maqbul and other concerned high officials were present at the Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport to see her off.
(BSS)
