DHAKA, 16 November 2021, (TON): Lord Ahmad is scheduled to visit Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar today.

The United Kingdom announced to provide Bangladesh an assistance of £54 million to help the country mitigate the pandemic-induced disruption in its education sector and help return half a million children back to schools.

The UK Minister of State for South Asia, United Nations and the Commonwealth, Lord Tariq Ahmad, made the announcement at an event in Dhaka.

Tariq Ahmad, now on a visit to Bangladesh, was delivering talks on “Bangladesh-UK: Partners in Progress” at the Foreign Service Academy with Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen in the chair.

Highlighting salient features of Bangladesh-United Kingdom relationship over the past five decades, Lord Ahmad lauded tremendous successes that Bangladesh achieved in recent decades in the areas of girls’ education, poverty alleviation and climate change adaptations.

He also reiterated his country’s last week’s pronounced commitment of providing Bangladesh with £120 million worth of assistance over the next six years to help the country become more resilient against climate change vulnerabilities.