UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel is now in Dhaka

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United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet arrived Dhaka on a four-day visit on Sunday morning as Bangladesh looks forward to having a ‘constructive dialogue’ with her for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen received Bachelet at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport upon her arrival at about 10:20am.

On her four-day visit, Bachelet is expected to hold a series of meetings with government officials, youth representatives, civil society leaders, and academics in Dhaka and meet forcibly replaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.

According to the draft programme, Bachelet will hold the first meeting with foreign minister AK Abdul Momen before meeting law minister Anisul Huq and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday.

On the second day of her visit, she will meet a few selected human rights workers and organisations and travel to Cox’s Bazar.

She will also pay homage to the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on the occasion of national mourning day, to be observed on August 15.

According to Bangladesh’s foreign ministry, on the third day of her tour, she will visit the Rohingya camps and the office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner in Cox’s Bazar.

The ministry said during her trip to Cox’s Bazar, the top executive of the UN human rights body would be equipped with concrete information to press hard on the agenda for the repatriation of the Rohingya to their ancestral homeland in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Bachelet will call on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on the fourth day of her visit and visit the office of the National Human Rights Commission in Dhaka before attending a press conference. She will leave on the same day.

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