UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer is coming to Dhaka on a four-day visit. During the visit, she will visit the camps to learn about the situation of the Rohingya crisis.
According to a source of the ministry, Noeleen Heyzer is scheduled to reach Dhaka on Monday (August 22) around noon.
Diplomatic sources say that the visit of the UN Special Envoy for Myanmar is of particular importance to the Rohingya issue because she is coming to Bangladesh immediately after his first visit to Myanmar a week ago.
At the beginning of the visit, Noeleen Heyzer will hold a meeting with Foreign Secretary Masoud Bin Momen. That night Heyzer will attend a dinner at the invitation of the Secretary of State.
On the second day of the visit, she will visit Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp. There, Heyzer will hear from Rohingya refugees about their living conditions and plight. On the same day, she will hold a meeting with the Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner.
The next day, Heyzer will pay tribute to the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at 32 Dhanmondi and visit Bangabandhu’s memorial house.
Heyzer will have a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the last day of the visit. She will then attend a discussion program organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the fifth anniversary of the Rohingya crisis at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Heyzer, a Singaporean sociologist, as a special envoy to Myanmar last year. Heyzer was replaced by Swiss diplomat Christine Schreiner Bergener.
