Dhaka, Jul 18 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for London on Friday on a 17-day official visit to the United Kingdom.

A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here for London at 9:30am on Friday.

The flight is scheduled to reach Heathrow International Airport in London at 3.55 pm (local time).

“During the visit, the Prime Minister will attend a Conference of Bangladesh envoys  who are in Europe, in London, the UK capital city, on July 20,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told UNB.

At the advice of Bangladeshi doctors, the PM will also receive eye treatment in London, he said.

The Prime Minister is expected to leave London for Dhaka on August 4 and return home in the morning of August 5.