Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to attend the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
The Bangladeshi premier was welcomed by Iran's Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi upon her arrival in Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
More than 100 countries are partaking in the NAM meeting which kicked off at the expert level in Tehran on Sunday.
At the opening ceremony of the NAM expert-level meeting, Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement for three years. Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations Mootaz Khalil formally handed over the presidency to Iran.
The two-day foreign ministerial meeting of the NAM summit began on Tuesday and the meeting of the heads of state will open on Thursday with an inaugural speech by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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