On mission in Bangladesh, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed Bangladesh for keeping its borders open and sheltering the forcibly displaced Rohingya refugees on its land, said the UN official website.
On the Rohingya plight the UN head said, “In a world where so many borders are closed, Bangladesh have opened their borders and received their brothers and sisters coming from Myanmar and from the terrible events there.”
The UN chief made the remarks in a multi-stakeholder dialogue on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Dhaka on Sunday.
Guterres praised the country’s initiatives to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
He also noted the progress made by Bangladesh and highlighted the country’s integration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs into its national planning frameworks, as an “example that many others can follow.”
Guterres also warned of the impact of climate change, particularly for countries such as Bangladesh, where much of the land lies close to sea-level.
He called for a greater political will to realize the commitments made through the 2015 Paris climate change agreement and urged countries to raise their ambition to limit temperature rises.
The UN chief also underscored the importance of empowering women and youth during the session.

Antonio Guterres now in Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingya makeshift camps in his maiden trip to Bangladesh as the UN chief.
Earlier in 2008, he visited the Rohingya camps as the chief of the UN refugee agency.
There he will meet the Rohingyas communities and humanitarian workers in Cox’s Bazar district to advocate for increased donor support.
Since late August 2017, violence against Myanmar’s mainly-Muslim minority Rohingya forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in Rakhine state and seek refuge across the border in Bangladesh.