UN chief Guterres arrives today with packed schedule
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain will receive the UN chief who is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by an Emirates flight at around 5pm, officials said quoting his tentative programme schedule.
Summary:
- Guterres arrives in Dhaka Thursday for packed Friday-Saturday schedule
- Visits Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps with Chief Adviser Yunus on Friday
- Will receive briefings on disaster mitigation, infrastructure, and refugee support initiatives
- Will join Iftar meal with refugees and Bangladeshi host community
- UN premises tour, youth dialogue, and civil society meeting on Saturday
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will arrive in Dhaka today (Thursday 13, March) with a packed schedule for Friday and Saturday, featuring a series of meetings and greater engagements in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camp, before his departure on Sunday morning.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain will receive the UN chief who is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by an Emirates flight at around 5pm, officials said quoting his tentative programme schedule.
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Guterres will meet Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at his office on Friday morning.
Adviser Hossain Touhid Hossain and High Representative on Rohingya issue and priority matters Dr Khalilur Rahman will also meet the UN chief at a city hotel.
After these two separate meetings, the UN chief together with the Chief Adviser will travel to Cox's Bazar to visit the Rohingya camps.
Disaster Management and Relief Adviser Faruk E Azam Bir Protik will receive them at Cox's Bazar International Airport at around 12pm on Friday.
At a briefing at the watch tower led by UNRC, RRRC, ISCG Principal Coordinator and IOM-UNHCR Representative, a panoramic view of the camps and Myanmar border will be provided.
There will be a briefing by the World Bank; demonstrating the role of IFIs on strengthening infrastructure and human capital investment among refugees.
The briefing will highlight disaster mitigation and integrated approaches to service delivery.
Sharing their engagements in the Rohingya camp, Chief Adviser's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said they expect 1 lakh Rohingya people will join iftar with the Chief Adviser and UN chief together.
Guterres and Dr Yunus will take part in an Iftar meal with refugees and members of the Bangladeshi host community, recognising the generosity of Bangladesh in sheltering nearly one million Rohingya who fled persecution and violence in Myanmar.
They are expected to return to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar around 8:40pm on Friday.
On Saturday, the UN chief will visit new UN common premises and see the 50th anniversary photo exhibition. Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan and Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin are likely to remain present.
Guterres will also join a meeting with the UN Country Team members and UN all staff.
He is likely to attend a roundtable discussion on reforms and will have a separate dialogue with the youth on Saturday.
The UN Secretary General will also have a meeting with the civil society to be moderated by Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan.
A joint media briefing by the UN Secretary General and Foreign Adviser Hossain is likely to take place before joining Iftar and early dinner to be hosted by Chief Adviser Yunus.
The UN Secretary General is scheduled to leave Dhaka on Sunday morning wrapping up his second visit to Bangladesh.
High Representative Khalilur Rahman will see him off at the airport.
