United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres
today expressed his "total solidarity" with Chief Adviser Professor
Muhammad Yunus and the interim government, saying the UN stands ready to
support reforms in Bangladesh.
The
UN secretary general expressed his support when he met the chief adviser at the
UN headquarters here on Thursday (local time).
"The
country team of the UN will like to support you," he said, adding that the
newly adopted UN Pact of the Future was very much relevant to Bangladesh and
its concessional funding applies to the country.
Guterres
praised the Bangladesh peacekeepers, saying, "They are very important for
us."
Prof
Yunus highlighted the July-August student-led mass uprising, which ended Sheikh
Hasina's brutal dictatorship.
“I
am here because young people gave their lives for a new Bangladesh," he
said.
They
also discussed climate change and its impact on the 170 million people of
Bangladesh, the Rohingya crisis, and the UN-led fact finding mission, which is
investigating atrocities committed during the July-August mass uprising.