Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will leave for New York on Sunday night to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Dr Yunus will reach New York on September 22 and address the UN General Assembly session on September 26, Chief Adviser's Senior Assistant Press Secretary Foyez Ahammad told state news agency BSS on Saturday evening.
Professor Yunus is scheduled to return home on October 2, he said.
Earlier, on September 17, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain at a briefing said that four political leaders will join the Bangladesh delegation this year.
They are BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP leader Humayun Kabir, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syeed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, and National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Akhter Hossen.
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