Prime Minister Tarique Rahman departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka aboard a Turkish Airlines flight at 7:30am on Tuesday, to attend the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye.

Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashiduzzaman Millat, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni, Dhaka North City BNP Member Secretary and MP SM Jahangir, Cabinet Secretary Nasimul Ghani and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister ABM Abdus Sattar saw him off at the airport.

The climate conference is slated to take place on November 9-20 at the Antalya Expo Center with the World Leaders' Summit on November 11-12.

After arriving in Antalya, Tarique Rahman is scheduled to attend the climate summit on Wednesday.

He will address the World Leaders Summit on November 12, highlighting the struggles of people in Bangladesh and across South Asia in coping with the impacts of climate change, the foreign secretary said.

On the sidelines of the conference, Tarique Rahman is likely to hold meetings with the Turkish president, the prime ministers of Australia and Uzbekistan, China's vice-president and the British foreign secretary.

The prime minister is scheduled to return home on Friday.