DHAKA, Mar 12 (NNN-BSS) – The apex trade organisation of Bangladesh, held the “Bangladesh Business Summit 2023” in partnership with the Bangladeshi government here yesterday.
The three-day summit came, as part of efforts to further boost the country’s growing trade, commerce and investment sectors.
Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, inaugurated the summit to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), the country’s top business body.
The summit, organised by the FBCCI in association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Commerce Ministry, and the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), is being held at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), also known as the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.
Ministers from seven countries including Britain, Saudi Arabia, China, Bhutan, the United Arab Emirates, senior officials of 12 multinational companies, and more than 200 foreign investors and business leaders from 17 countries of the world, are participating in the summit.
The FBCCI said the summit, envisaged to become Bangladesh’s flagship business event, seeks to highlight economic and market strengths, and concrete trade and investment opportunities in the country, by convening national and global business leaders, investors, policymakers, practitioners, policy and market analysts, academia, and innovators.
