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Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived here in the sea-front town on Friday afternoon to attend a number programmes, including a tour to the Rohingya refugee camp.
Disaster Management and Relief Adviser Faruk E Azam Bir Protik received them upon their arrival at Cox’s Bazar International Airport at around 12:55 pm.
UN Under-Secretary General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) Rabab Fatima, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain, SDGs Affairs Principal Coordinator Lamiya Morshed and Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam are accompanying them.
The chief adviser will visit the under-construction Cox's Bazar International Airport and the Khurushkul Climate Refugee Center before visiting the Rohingya camp, as per a UNB report.
The UN chief will share an Iftar with the refugees, to be hosted by Dr Yunus.
The UN chief and Dr Yunus will meet with Rohingya refugees who have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Myanmar.
They will also meet with the host Bangladeshi communities who have been so generous in hosting them.
"Every Ramadan, I spend time with Muslim communities living in difficult circumstances, to observe the fast with them and help shine a spotlight on their plight. This year I’m in Bangladesh to express my solidarity with Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi people hosting them," Guterres said on his Ramadan solidarity visit.
Dr Yunus and Guterres are scheduled to return to Dhaka tonight (Friday).
In the morning, the UN chief had a bilateral meeting with Dr Yunus and discussed the issues of mutual interests, including the Rohingya refugee crisis.
The meeting was held at Chief Adviser's Office in Tejgaon.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain and Chief Adviser's High Representative Dr Khalilur Rahman also met Guterres at a city hotel, before his meeting with the Chief Adviser.
On Saturday in Dhaka, the Secretary-General will meet with youth and representatives from civil society, said an official at the UN office in Dhaka.
He will also have a joint press conference with the Foreign Adviser Hossain on Saturday afternoon.
Guterres is scheduled to leave Bangladesh on Sunday morning.