Concluding her eight-day official visit to the USA, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left New York for London by a US Air flight on Monday.
The flight took off from John F Kennedy International Airport at 7:15am local time.
The PM will stay in London for two days and return home on Thursday (October 2).
Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin and Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the UN Dr Abdul Momen and a large number of expatriate Bangladeshis saw her off at the airport.
Sheikh Hasina came to New York on September 22 to attend the 69th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). She addressed the UNGA on September 27 expressing concern over volatile global security situation and emergence of religious militancy and violent extremism in different parts of the world.
She urged the United Nations to play the central role as the custodian of global peace, security and development saying the evil forces destroying secular fabrics of the nations should be eliminated.
The PM along with world leaders joined a reception hosted by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. She also joined a reception and luncheon hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Sheikh Hasina attended the inaugural session of the Climate Summit-2014 and delivered her speech at the "National Action and Ambition Announcement" session of the Summit. She also took part in a high-level discussion of the Global Education First Initiative.
Sheikh Hasina met with US business leaders urging them to create a new business partnership to help Bangladesh become a middle income country by 2021. She also highlighted the government's liberal fiscal policies and incentives for foreign investors.
The premier joined a discussion of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHG) and attended a summit on international peacekeeping operations at the UN Headquarters.
She joined a gala function at the UN Headquarters marking the 40th anniversary of Bangladesh's membership to the United Nations.
Apart from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UN Under Secretary General Ameerah Haq, United States Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennadiy Gatilov, UK Ambassador to the United States Peter Westmacott, Senior Official of the Ministry of External Affairs of India Binod Kumar, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova attended the function.
They showered praises on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her invaluable contribution to world peace and security side by side with stellar development in the country.
They also lauded Sheikh Hasina for her firm stance against terrorism and militancy and achieving millennium development goals by Bangladesh in different fields.
On the sidelines of the UNGA, she held meetings with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Norwegian Premier Erna Solberg, Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhal Myasnikovich and Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala.
She also attended a reception accorded by expatriate Bangladeshis.
