Finance Minister AMA Muhith today (Tuesday) leaves Dhaka for Kazakhstan to attend the 47th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) beginning at Astana on May 2, reports BSS.
According to the ministry of finance, Muhith will reach Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan via Abu Dhabi and Almaty today. On May 1, he will attend a briefing meeting with executive director of the ADB Umesh Kumar and hold meeting with ADB president Takehiko Nakao.
The finance minister will attend a cultural show before joining a bilateral meeting with Indian finance minister P Chidambaram on May 2.
On May 3, Muhith will join the 8th informal meeting of SAARC finance ministers and attend ADB president’s reception. He will then join governor’s plenary session “Achieving Achievable a Disaster Resilient Future”.
He will join the opening session of the board of governors first business session before joining the host country reception on May 4. He will also attend the governor’s roundtable discussion on the same day.