Tarique Rahman, honourable prime minister of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, has attended a dinner hosted by Yohei Sasakawa, honorary chairman of The Nippon Foundation and Sasakawa Peace Foundation.
The dinner was held Monday, at Hanagasumi Restaurant, Meiji Kinenkan in Tokyo, Japan.
The prime minister’s wife Zubaida Rahman; Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, finance and planning minister; M Rashiduzzaman Millat, civil aviation and tourism minister; Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, prime minister’s adviser on finance and planning; Humayun Kabir, state minister for foreign affairs-1; Anindya Islam Amit, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources; Dr Md Shakirul Islam Khan, prime minister’s special assistant for overseas employment in the Asia-Pacific region; and Kamrul Islam, prime minister’s protocol officer-2, among others, were present at the dinner.
Takashi Arikawa, executive director of The Nippon Foundation, and senior officials of the organisation also attended the dinner.
At the dinner, the prime minister recalled the meeting held in Dhaka last September with Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of The Nippon Foundation. He thanked Sasakawa for his longstanding contribution to humanitarian assistance, education, and public health sectors in Bangladesh.
Discussions were also held at the time regarding potential co-operation in setting up a vaccine manufacturing plant to control infectious diseases in Bangladesh. During his visit to Bangladesh last September, Sasakawa had paid a courtesy call on the prime minister.
