Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen announced today that Dhaka has extended an invitation to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit Bangladesh on a bilateral basis in September of this year.
After meeting with the Canadian Minister of International Development, Harjit S. Sajjan, he told the media, “We have asked him (Trudeau)… he will visit India in September to attend the G20 summit if he manage to come here that time it will be a plus.”
Speaking with Sajjan at a joint news conference this afternoon at the capital’s state guest house Padma was the foreign minister.
Canadian PM visited Bangladesh when he was a kid … now he has become a household name in Bangladesh,” Momen said referring to Trudeau’s huge popularity among the country’s mass people.
With his father Pierre Trudeau, who was the Canadian Prime Minister at the time, Trudeau traveled to Bangladesh as a young boy in 1983.
Harjit S. Sajjan stated that he would directly inform his Prime Minister of the invitation from Dhaka.
“One thing I do know that he (Trudeau) does remember and is very fond of his time when he traveled with his father (in Bangladesh) and he always shares his stories. So, if the opportunity does come, I know that how much he would really welcome to come here,” said the Canadian minister.
In a video message commemorating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence in March 2021, Trudeau remembered his first trip to the country as a young boy.
“That time my father and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had already forged a strong relationship rooted in Canada’s early support for an independent Bangladesh,” the Canadian premier said in the video message.
