Abrar Hussain: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is to visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on July 2 to observe the refugee situation on the ground and the UN agencies’ engagement firsthand, reports UNB. Guterres is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh on July 1. On April 6, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina invited the UN Secretary-General to see for himself the plight of Rohingyas who have taken shelter here amid persecution in Myanmar.Sheikh Hasina also sought UN cooperation in implementing the agreement signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the Rohingya repartition. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim are also likely to arrive on June 28 or 29 and July 1 respectively to visit the Rohingya camps and observe the situation in Cox’s Bazar. They will also hold meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister AMA Muhith and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, among others. However, the UNB reports that these visits are in discussions and no specific date has been given yet, adding that the World Bank may provide Bangladesh with a grant worth around $200 million to help tackle the ongoing Rohingya crisis.
The visit comes barely a month after the United Nations Security Council’s visit to the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
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