UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has met Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the latter’s office on Friday.
The two leaders left for Cox`s Bazar after the meeting to visit a camp for displaced Rohingya refugees, reports Bdnews24.com.
They flew to Cox`s Bazar on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reports.
Guterres came to Bangladesh on Thursday at Yunus’s invitation for a four-day state visit.
The UN secretary general also met Foreign Advisor Touhid Hossain on Friday.
In a press conference at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Wednesday, Chief Advisor’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder shared the details of Guterres’s itinerary.
He said the UN chief would arrive in Dhaka at 5pm on Thursday, and his main activities would take place on Friday and Saturday.
Abul Kalam said the chief advisor has a separate agenda in Cox’s Bazar, where he will inaugurate a project at the Cox’s Bazar Airport, visit a climate refugee centre, and open a model mosque.
“Upon arrival in Cox’s Bazar, the UN secretary general will directly head to the Rohingya camps, where he will attend a campaign for Rohingya children and listen to a presentation on nutrition and support for refugees. He will then visit the Rohingya Cultural Centre to witness a cultural performance.”
After these events, the UN chief will join the refugees for Iftar, with an estimated 100,000 Rohingya expected to attend, the deputy press secretary said. This Iftar is being organised by the chief advisor. The leaders will be back in Dhaka on Friday.
On Saturday, the UN secretary-general will spend a busy day in Dhaka, visiting the UN office and holding meetings with the National Consensus Commission and later with representatives of civil society.
He will hold a press conference that afternoon.
Later, the chief advisor will host an Iftar and dinner in the UN chief`s honour.
On Sunday, Guterres will depart from Bangladesh.
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