DHAKA, 31 October 2021, (TON): Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will leave home today for two weeks to attend the 26th session of the UN climate conference (COP26) in the United Kingdom and a state visit to the UK and France.

The Bangladesh premier will address on Monday the COP26, which is set to begin in Glasgow in Scotland.

She will hold meetings with British prime minister Boris Johnson, Prince Charles and Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on the sideline of the global climate conference.

Top US businessman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, among other foreign dignitaries, are likely to call on the Bangladesh premier during her three-day presence in Glasgow.

Hasina will be in London for six days from November 3 on an official visit. She will join a businessmen summit organised for attracting British investment to Bangladesh and increasing export to the UK among other engagements.

She will reach Paris for about five days starting from November 9 as a state guest.

Hasina will return home on November 13.