Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain is scheduled to leave for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 9 to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
The 32nd ARF will be held on July 10-11 and the Foreign Adviser is scheduled to return home on July 12, a senior official told UNB.
Bangladesh is one of the partners of the multilateral security forum, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF).
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A forum of diverse nations, ARF’s aim is to maintain peace and security in the Asia Pacific region through the process of dialogues and consultations.
Bangladesh was officially admitted to this forum at the inaugural session of the thirteenth Annual Ministerial Meeting of ARF partners, held in Kuala Lumpur on 28 July 2006.
The twenty-sixth ASEAN ministerial meeting and post ministerial conference, which were held in Singapore on July 23-25, 1993, agreed to establish the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). The inaugural meeting of the ARF was held in Bangkok on 25 July 1994.