Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Baku for home on Friday (Oct 27) winding up her four-day official visit to Azerbaijan for attending the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members took off from the Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport at 11:10 am local time.

Minister for Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Aziz Oglu Bayramov and Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey M. Allama Siddiki, who is concurrently accredited to Azerbaijan, saw the prime minister off at the airport.

The flight is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka at 7.30pm (BST).

The two-day summit of the NAM, a forum of 120 developing countries, began on October 25 at Baku Congress Centre in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the summit along with other heads of states and governments of the member states of the NAM.

On the sidelines of the NAM Summit, the prime minister had meetings with a number of NAM leaders including Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Algerian Acting President Abdelkader Bensalah, and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malki.

An agreement on the cultural exchange was signed between Bangladesh and Azerbaijan on Thursday in presence of the Bangladesh Prime Minister and the Azerbaijan President to tune up the cultural ties between the two countries.