Chief Adviser Prof Yunus left New York on Tuesday night (US time) for Dhaka, wrapping up a nine-day visit marked by extensive engagements during the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
An Emirates Airlines commercial flight carrying the CA and his small entourage took off from John F Kennedy International Airport at 11:10pm (US time).
CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Tareq Md Ariful Islam and Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury bid him farewell at the airport.
Yunus is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on the morning of 2 October (Bangladesh time), via Dubai.
He began his UNGA tour on 22 September and ended it by attending the high-level conference on the “Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities” held at the UNGA Hall on Tuesday.
Moreover, he delivered his address at the 80th UNGA on 26 September and held a series of meetings with world leaders.
The delegation at Prof Yunus’s invitation included BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP leader Humayun Kabir, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syeed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, Jamaat’s US spokesperson Mohammad Nakibur Rahman, National Citizen Party member secretary Akhter Hossen, and first senior joint member secretary Dr Tasnim Jara.
