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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought technical assistance from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to develop skilled manpower for quality aviation services and aircraft maintenance.\u00a0He said, “Bangladesh hopes that ICAO will provide technical assistance in providing aviation navigation services in accordance with ICAO standards and developing skilled manpower for quality control of maintenance of aircraft registered in Bangladesh.”<\/span> Staff correspondent : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought technical assistance from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to develop skilled manpower for quality aviation services and aircraft maintenance.\u00a0He said, “Bangladesh hopes that ICAO will provide technical assistance in providing aviation navigation services in accordance with ICAO standards and developing skilled manpower for quality control of maintenance of aircraft registered in Bangladesh.” ICAO Council President Salvatore Sciacchitano and ICAO Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar Gomez called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a courtesy call at Ganabhaban, her official residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nICAO Council President Salvatore Sciacchitano and ICAO Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar Gomez called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a courtesy call at Ganabhaban, her official residence.<\/span>
\nAfter the meeting, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the journalists.\u00a0In the press briefing, he said that during the meeting, Sheikh Hasina expressed her hope that ICAO will help Bangladesh in creating skilled manpower to control aircraft maintenance while maintaining ICAO’s standards.\u00a0At that time, the Prime Minister said that Bangladesh will be an aviation center connecting East and West.\u00a0For that purpose the government is developing their airports accordingly.\u00a0And that is why he is seeking ICAO’s help in this regard.<\/span>
\nThe President of ICAO Council said that the aviation sector has huge potential in Bangladesh.\u00a0He assured that ICAO will help Bangladesh in this sector.\u00a0Referring to the grand opening of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s third terminal, Salvatore Ciachitano said, “This terminal is beautiful, which will help ensure the safety and comfort of air passengers.”\u00a0He also said, ‘The main task will be to ensure the safety of the passengers.’\u00a0In this context, the President of ICAO Council enthusiastically praised the steps taken by Sheikh Hasina’s government for the development of connectivity.<\/span>
\nThe Prime Minister said that his government is emphasizing on protecting the environment.\u00a0The government is very careful to protect the environment and Bangladesh emits very little carbon.\u00a0But despite this, the country is the worst affected.\u00a0Sheikh Hasina said that her party Awami League has been following the footsteps of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman since 1985 and has been carrying out tree plantation campaign.\u00a0Bangabandhu started a tree plantation program in the country after independence.<\/span>
\nAt this time, Post and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar, State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism.\u00a0Mahbub Ali, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister.\u00a0Tofazzal Hossain Mia, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary.\u00a0Mokammel Hossain and Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Air Vice Marshal Md.\u00a0Mofidur Rahman was present.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"