Dhaka, Apr 26 (UNB) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Bangladesh on May 5-6, the State Department announced in Washington on Thursday.

The announcement said Secretary Clinton will meet senior government officials and civil society representatives to review robust US-Bangladesh cooperation across the full range of political, economic and security matters.

Ms Clinton is coming to Dhaka on the second leg of her three- nation tour in Asia that would also take her to Beijing and New Delhi.

“We’re still working on her schedule,” a spokesperson for the US Embassy in Dhaka told UNB over phone.

Asked about her sudden visit to Bangladesh, the spokesperson said Secretary Clinton has been planning to visit Bangladesh for quite some time and now she has decided to visit Bangladesh.

She will come to Dhaka after her visit to Beijing on May 3-4 and from Dhaka, she will go to Kolkata and New Delhi.

US Ambassador Dan W Mozena at his maiden press conference here had said Secretary Clinton would visit Bangladesh to sign a “strategic partnership” deal, evidently as the United States now turns its foreign-policy focus on Asia.