Guests from 11 countries to attend AL national council

The Awami League has confirmed the attendance of 53 high profile foreign political leaders from 11 countries at the party’s 20th triennial national council starting this morning. A press statement issued by the Awami League lists the names, designations and countries from which these guests are coming to attend the two-day event. India is sending the highest number of delegates including Dr Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe, vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajya Sabha Mps Roopa Ganguly from BJP, opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad from Indian National Congress, and Education Minister Partha Chaterjee from Trinamool Congress, among others. From the Saarc countries will be present Sri Lankan Religious Affairs Minister AH Mohamad Hasheem; from Nepal former prime minister KP Sharma Oli; Bhutanese Minister of Information and Communications Dina Nath Dungyel among others. The Chinese delegates include International Department of Communist Party of China’s Vice-Minister Zheng Xiaosong, Director General Yuan Zhibin, deputy director generals Jia Peng and Cao Zhigang, among others. From the United Kingdom Jenny Rathbone, assembly member for Cardiff Central, Welsh Government, and Dilwar Ali, councillor for Landaff North, City of Cardiff Council, are to attend. From Europe, Italy is sending Ugo Papi, MP and consultant of the committee on foreign affairs, and Khalid Chaouki, MP and member of Italian chamber of deputies and serves on the foreign affairs committee; Russia is sending Sergey Zheleznyak, deputy secretary of United Russia, Valeria Gorokhova, adviser of United Russia, and Alexender Potapov, MP from Republican Party of Russia. Canadian MP Deepak Obhrai from Conservative Party will be in attendance with Australian State MP of New South Wales from Labor Party, Hugh McDermott and Maninderjit Singh, councillor of Blacktown City Council from Labor Party.