Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) – Environment Minister of Denmark Steen Gade will arrive in the capital Dhaka on Sunday to attend a dialogue on health and climate change on November 29.

Steen is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Speaker Abdul Hamid, Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque, State Minister for Forest and Environment Hasan Mahmud and Election Commissioner Sohul Hussain, a press statement said.

The Danish minister is expected to deliver a lecture on the dialogue at ASA University on Tuesday and leave Dhaka the same day for Durban, South Africa, to attend the Conference of Parties, known as COP-17, of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

BBN/SSR/AD-27Nov11-11:52 am (BST)