UNSC team due today to visit Rohingya camps

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UNB, Dhaka :
A high-profile delegation of the UN Security Council arrives here on Saturday afternoon to see the brutalities that the Rohingyas faced in Rakhine State and steps taken by the government of Bangladesh.
UNSC President for April Gustavo Meza-Cuadra will lead the UNSC delegation, says an official.
The UNSC team will go to Cox’s Bazar on Saturday upon their arrival in Dhaka on the same day.
They will stay in Cox’s Bazar at night and will visit zero line along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and visit Rohingya
camps in the district on Sunday to see first-hand the impacts of the Rohingya crisis.
The delegation members are expected to return to Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar on Sunday evening after witnessing the Rohingya situation on the ground. The delegation will leave for Naypyidaw on April 30 and go to Rakhine the next day. The UN Security Council is composed of 15 members with five permanent members, China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and 10 non-permanent members.
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