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Sun News Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached South Africa on Tuesday night to attend the 15th BRICS Summit.
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A regular flight (EK-765) of the Emirates Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at the OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of Republic of South Africa Parks Tau and Bangladesh High Commissioner to South Africa Noor-E Helal Saifur Rahman received the Prime Minister at the airport.
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Upon arrival, the Prime Minister was given guard of honour there.
From the airport, she was escorted to her Palace of Residence, the Radission Blu Hotel Sandton here. Sheikh Rehana, the younger daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister’s daughter Saima Wazed were accompanying the premier.
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Earlier, the flight took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 10:30am (BD time) on August 22.
South Africa is hosting the historic 15th summit of BRICS nations -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
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It will be the first BRICS summit to be hosted in person since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent global restrictions.
The prime minister is scheduled to leave Johannesburg for Dhaka on August 26 and expected to arrive at home in the morning of August 27 after a brief stopover in the Dubai International Airport.
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