Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Riyadh on a four-day state visit in the Middle East kingdom.
The Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Hasina and her entourage landed at King Khaled International Airport in the Saudi Arabian capital around 6:50pm local time, reports BSS.
The governor of Riyadh and Bangladesh envoy Golam Moshi received her at the airport.
Hasina will hold a meeting on Thursday with the leaders of Council of Saudi Chamber (CSC) and Riyadh Chamber of Commerce at her place of residence.
Later in the day, she will have an audience with King Salman bin Adbulaziz at Royal Palace and the meeting will be followed by a lunch.
The same day, she will inaugurate Bangladesh Chancery Building in the Diplomatic Quarters, Riyadh.
The prime minister will fly for Medina the same evening to offer ziarat at Rowza of Holy Prophet (PBUH) at Masjid Al-Nabawi.
On Thursday, she will arrive in Jeddah where she will lay the foundation stone of the Chancery Building of Bangladesh Consulate General. Later in the day, she will then travel to Makkah to perform Umrah.
The prime minister will fly for Dhaka from Jeddah the next morning.
During the visit, two instruments – a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defence cooperation and a MoU on ICT cooperation – would be signed between Bangladesh and the KSA, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told the media in Dhaka on Monday.
He said the issue of safe repatriation of Rohingyas will also be discussed during the meeting between Prime Minister Hasina and Saudi King Salman.
Apart from the defence cooperation and Rohingya matters, issues related to labour welfare, promotion of bilateral trade and investment, development cooperation and greater unity and prosperity of Muslim Ummah are expected to be discussed during the meeting of the two leaders, Mahmood said.