United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called upon the international community to provide necessary financial and political support for Rohingya refugees and their host communities to avoid humanitarian disasters in Bangladesh, state-run BSS news agency said.
Guterres, who is on a four-day visit from March 13 to Bangladesh, was addressing a joint press briefing in Dhaka, a day after he travelled to Cox's Bazaar on a mission of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees.
The plight of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar remains uncertain over possible aid cuts in near future.
After his visit to Cox's Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh to see the plight of Rohingyas in the crammed makeshift camps after being evicted from their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine state, Guterres described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and countries in Europe to Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are located, as a crime.
On Saturday. He reiterated his