Italian PM Meloni likely to visit BD in Aug

City Desk :

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is likely to pay an official visit to Bangladesh in the last week of August as the two countries eye greater cooperation in core areas to further strengthen the relations.

Officials on both sides are now working to finalise things to make visit a successful one, a diplomatic source told UNB.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, who visited Bangladesh earlier this month, informed Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus that Italy is willing to hire more people from Bangladesh and will undertake measures to ensure safe migration from the country.

Matteo conveyed to the chief adviser that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is expected to visit Bangladesh sometime before September, as Rome is keen to “renew” and “re-launch” its bilateral cooperation with Dhaka, officials said.

The chief adviser said Bangladesh is eager to work with Italy to stop illegal migration and human trafficking.

“Bangladeshis living in Italy are very grateful to the host country and appreciative of the way they are treated in Italy,” Prof Yunus said.

In the margins of the high-level week of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in September last year, the President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni, met Chief Adviser Prof Yunus.