DHAKA, 04 March 2022, (TON): United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres has praised the role of Bangladeshi peacekeepers in the UN Missions and hoped that the country would continue to provide more troops to fulfill UN's future needs in this connection.

According to a message received “the UN secretary general lauded the Bangladeshi peacekeepers role when he met Bangladesh foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at the UN headquarters in New York.”

During the meeting, Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen requested the SG to appoint more Bangladeshi nationals at the high-level positions of the UN peace operations, and also in the position of Special Representative of Secretary General in various UN political missions across the world.

The foreign minister briefed the SG about the current situation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and sought UN's help to repatriate all Rohingyas to Myanmar.

Appreciating Bangladesh's generosity for sheltering 1.1 million Rohingyas, Guterres reiterated UN's support for returning the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.