WASHINGTON, 24 September 2021, (TON): The United States will contribute nearly $180 million in additional assistance for the humanitarian crisis facing Rohingya in and outside Myanmar, and for Rohingya refugees and affected host communities in Bangladesh.

‘Of this funding, nearly $158 million is for programmes inside Bangladesh,’ said ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US representative to the United Nations.

She said that this assistance will save lives.

She added that it will provide protection, shelter, food, safe drinking water, health care, and psychosocial support.

She said “Bangladesh and its people have taken on an enormous responsibility in hosting refugees.”

Linda said ‘we stand with the Government of Bangladesh and with Rohingya in working toward the ultimate goal of the safe, voluntary, dignified, and sustainable return and reintegration of Rohingya refugees and internally displaced person.”

While they relentlessly pressure Myanmar’s military regime to stop its violence and return to the path to democracy, the international community must examine other durable solutions for Rohingya, she said.