Politics
PM attends Sasakawa dinner in Tokyo, discusses vaccine factory cooperation
Translated by Desk Report
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman attended a dinner in Tokyo at the invitation of Yohei Sasakawa, honorary chairman of the Nippon Foundation and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Discussions covered potential cooperation in establishing a vaccine manufacturing plant in Bangladesh to control infectious diseases.
The dinner took place at Hanagasumi restaurant at Tokyo’s Meiji Kinenkan on Monday (26 October).
At the event, the prime minister recalled his meeting with Sasakawa in Dhaka last September. He thanked Sasakawa for his longstanding contributions to humanitarian assistance, education and public health in Bangladesh.
The prime minister’s wife, Dr Zubaida Rahman, Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, and Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M Rashiduzzaman Millat attended the dinner.
Also attending were the prime minister’s adviser on finance and planning, Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir; State Minister for Foreign Affairs-1 Humayun Kabir; State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Anindya Islam Amit; the prime minister’s special assistant on overseas employment in the Asia-Pacific region, Dr Md Shakirul Islam Khan; and Protocol Officer-2 Kamrul Islam.
Nippon Foundation Executive Director Takashi Arikawa and other senior officials of the organisation were also present.
Yohei Sasakawa paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman during his visit to Bangladesh last September.
