The visiting chief of the United Nations, António Guterres, on Friday left Dhaka by state-run Biman Bangladesh flight to Cox’s Bazar to visit Rohingya Muslims living in sprawling camps after the fled persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.
Guterres aboard the Biman flight along with chief adviser to Bangladesh’s interim administration at about noontime, according to the chief adviser’s press wing.
Earlier, the UN Secretary General Guterres, who arrived in Dhaka on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, called on the Chief Adviser at the latter’s office.
At the camp, Guterres and Yunus are scheduled to interact with the Rohingya Muslims and later would join an iftar, the evening meal after day’s fasting of Muslim, at the camp.
Bangladesh has been hosting more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims living in camps in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char, an offshore island in the Bay of Bengal, after they fled violence in Myanmar.
More than 750,000 of them crossed the border after Myanmar launched a military crackdown in August 2017.
Guterres also held a meeting with Touhid Hossain, foreign affairs adviser, in Dhaka, to find ways for resolving the Rohingya crisis.