Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Saturday for New York to join the UN General Assembly.
A special Biman Bangladesh flight carrying Hasina left Dhaka on Saturday afternoon for Abu Dhabi, reports bdnews24.com.
She is scheduled to take an Etihad Airways flight from there the next morning and expected to reach New York in the afternoon.
Bangladesh's Ambassador to the US M Ziauddin and Permanent Representative to the UN Masud Bin Momen will receive Hasina at the JFK Airport, Press Secretary to the PM Ihsanul Karim said on Friday.
The 72nd General Assembly of the United Nations started on Sept 12. Representatives of 193 nations will take part in the general debate from Sept 19 to 21.
The annual gathering of world leaders is taking place when hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas are fleeing violence in Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine.
Hasina is scheduled to address the assembly on Sept 21. She is expected to present her country's proposals in an effort to resolve the ongoing Rohingya crisis
