FM Mahmood Ali holds meeting with Thai princess Sirindhorn

Visiting Thailand's princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Tuesday evening held a meeting with foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali and discussed various issues of mutual interest.

Sirindhorn who arrived in Dhaka on Monday on a four-day visit also visited Mariali Government Primary School in Gazipur.

She will visit Thailand and Bangladesh collaborative project on Vetiver Grass Development near Tiger Pass Area in Chattogram on Wednesday. She will also visit Ethnological Museum in the port city.

Sirindhorn will meet prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning and exchange views with agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury and culture affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor and other dignitaries, officials said.

She will also inaugurate a new environmental conservation project taken in collaboration with the environment and forests ministry titled "Bangladesh-Thailand Vetiver Grass Development Project to prevent hill erosion in Chattogram" on Wednesday at Tiger Pass in Chattogram city.

The princess is leading an 11-member high-profile Thai government delegation to visit philanthropic projects she set up in Bangladesh in 2011 under her father late King Bhumibols's Royal Chai Pattana Foundation.

On the first day, she visited Liberation War Museum in the city and took a tour of different galleries of the museum.

Officials at the museum described the brutalities carried out by Pakistan army during the 1971 Liberation War.

She will also attend dinner to be hosted by foreign minister Mahmood Ali in her honour.

Source: unb