Visiting Princess from Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Tuesday evening held a meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discussed various issues of mutual interest.
Sirindhorn, who arrived in Dhaka on Monday for a four-day visit, also visited Mariali Government Primary School in Gazipur.
She is set to visit and inaugurate the Thailand and Bangladesh collaborative project on Vetiver grass development, titled "Bangladesh-Thailand Vetiver Grass Development Project to prevent hill erosion in Chattogram," near the Tiger Pass Area in Chattogram on Wednesday. She will also visit the Ethnological Museum in the port city.
Sirindhorn will meet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning, and exchange views with Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Culture Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, and other dignitaries, officials said.
Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visits the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka on Monday; May 28, 2018 PID
The princess is leading an 11-member high-profile Thai government delegation to visit various philanthropic projects she set up in Bangladesh in 2011, under her father late King Bhumibols's Royal Chai Pattana Foundation.
On the first day of the visit, she took a tour of the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka.
Officials at the museum described the brutalities carried out by the Pakistan army during the Liberation War of 1971.
She will also attend a dinner to be hosted by Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali in her honour.
