The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed will curtail his visit to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Kampala, Uganda on November 23-25 in view of the situation caused by Cyclone Sidr.

The Chief Adviser is expected to leave here on November 21 to attend the Commonwealth summit.

In reply to a question, Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury told UNB today that the visit has been cut short.

He said the Chief Adviser would stay for one and a half days in Kampala, which will enable him to meet some Commonwealth leaders and apprise them of the country's post-cyclone situation. Chowdhury said the Chief Adviser's remarks in Kampala on natural disaster in Bangladesh would be in the context of the effect of climate change in area on which Bangladesh is playing a leading role. It had been planned that the Foreign Adviser would represent the Chief Adviser to the rest of the summit, but later it has been decided that he too would return home with the Chief Adviser on November 25.