United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim arrived in Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingya camps on Monday.
They arrived at Cox’s Bazar airport by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines around 8:30am.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, among others, are accompanying them in the visit.
The visit will highlight the generosity of Bangladesh in hosting the Rohingyas, as well as the need for the international community to do more.
A number of high-profile visits to Bangladesh, including that of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, indicate that Myanmar is under “another spell of pressure” from the international community over the Rohingya issue, according to experts.
International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer, who is also in Bangladesh, visited the Rohingya camps on Sunday.
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee is now visiting Bangladesh.
More than 700,000 Rohingya have taken shelter in Bangladesh after fleeing the violence that erupted in Myanmar on August 25, 2017.