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Bangladesh: Govt prepares for UN rights chief’s visit
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26 July 2022
DHAKA, 26 July 2022, (TON): An official document showed “the government is working to defend it from the allegations of rights violation and reap political benefit from the planned visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.”
Bachelet is scheduled to make her first visit to Bangladesh for four days from August 14 when she is expected to hold a series of meetings with the government officials and meet forcibly replaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.
Officials said “an inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen, on July 21 discussed the issues related to the visit and the government’s preparation.”
A background paper shared in the meeting read “the visit of the UN HCHR is, above all, has strong political element. This is needed to provide high importance on this visit, so that we can reap benefit from it, and the possible risks are averted.”
The visit of the HCHR is particularly important in the context of the recent sanctions.
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