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  21 Mar 2024, 12:21
Update : 21 Mar 2024, 12:55

Speaker off to Switzerland to attend IPU assembly

DHAKA, March 21, 2024 (BSS) - Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury left here for Geneva, Switzerland early hours of today to join the 148th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) scheduled to be held on 23-27 March.

A parliamentary delegation led by the speaker departed from the capital city around 3:00am on Thursday, an official release said.

JS Chief Whip Nur-E Alam Chowdhury and lawmakers Shafiqul Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Shahdara Mannan, Niluphar Anzum, HM Badiuzzaman, M Mujibul Huq and Akhtaruzzaman are accompanying the speaker.

Senior Secretary of the Parliament Secretariat KM Abdus Salam, Additional Secretary MA Kamal Billah, Joint Secretaries Enamul Haque and M Nazmul Haque, Deputy Secretaries M Wares Hossain and Jashim Uddin are also part of the delegation.

The speaker will return home on March 29.