The UK introduced a brand new £5.26 million ($6.31 million) funding package deal Friday for persecuted Rohingya residing in Bangladesh with a dedication to push for a long-term resolution to allow their return to Myanmar.
Visiting Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, introduced the brand new package deal, in line with an announcement.
A complete of £4.26 million will likely be distributed by the World Food Program (WFP) and £1 million will undergo the UN refugee company, UNHCR, for stress cookers to cut back the consumption of cooking gasoline in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Bangladesh is at present internet hosting greater than 1.2 million Rohingya in 33 squalid refugee camps within the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar.
Trevelyan will go to refugee camps in Cox Bazar to set out how the UK is offering new humanitarian help by the WFP to produce meals for 449,000 individuals residing within the camps this month, in line with the assertion.
She will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister A. Ok. Abdul Momen in addition to maintain talks with civil society organizations to strengthen UK-Bangladesh ties and partnership on local weather motion.
Trevelyan mentioned that the UK is dedicated to supporting the Rohingya individuals who proceed to dwell in Cox’s Bazar.
“The UK continues to push for a long-term solution that will enable the Rohingya to return to Myanmar on a safe, voluntary and dignified basis,” she mentioned.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Robert Chatterton Dickson, mentioned: “This visit reaffirms the UK’s firm commitment to Bangladesh as a fast growing Indo-Pacific partner with strong people to people connections and our ambition to work even more closely together in the future.”
Since 2017, the UK has supplied £350 million to help Rohingya and Bangladeshi host communities.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
