Discussion underway to open UNHR Office in Dhaka: Touhid 

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has said a discussion is underway to open an office of the United Nations Human Rights (UNHR) in Dhaka.

The adviser said this while talking to journalists after holding a meeting with visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at the foreign ministry on Wednesday.

“We are yet to decide … there was only a discussion … we are reviewing the matter,” he said. 

On BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s treatment in the UK, Touhid Hossain said she will travel there on November 7, and the interim government will provide assistance as per rule as she is a former prime minister.