Int’l support sought to resolve Rohingya crisis

Hasan Mahamud from New York: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a meeting on Thursday with the chief of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) at a hotel in New York, USA.

High Commissioner of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi discussed the Rohingya crisis with the Chief Adviser.

Grandi called for a new approach to the crisis saying that the international communities should do more to end the miseries of more than one million Rohingyas in the camps in Bangladesh.

He said the assumption of Prof Yunus as the new leader of Bangladesh has increased global interest in the Rohingya crisis. 

He expressed the hope there will be more funding for the Rohingya humanitarian responses.

“The 700 million dollars from the World Bank is a good starting point," he said, adding the UN stands ready to support more for the education of the Rohingya children.

Prof Yunus stressed finding a quick solution to the crisis and doing more for the future of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children growing up in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.

"We have to resolve this before it is too late. We have to find a solution," he said.

ILO Director General Gilbert Houngbo also called on the Chief Adviser at a hotel later on Thursday.