UNHCR chief Filippo visits Rohingyas

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has visited two Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar and talked to Myanmar’s minority people, who fled to Bangladesh due to persecution.

Filippo visited two Rohingya refugee camps -- one registered and another unregistered -- at Kutupalong in Ukhiya upazila around noon, reports our Cox’s Bazar correspondent.

He talked to the refugees for one and half an hour there.

When journalists tried to talk to him, he said,” I will brief media in Dhaka tomorrow”.

He will meet Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner in the afternoon.

Filippo arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day trip. He met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday. He also met Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Saturday, to discuss the refugee situation.

Earlier, Grandi visited Myanmar and met top government leaders, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. He also visited Rakhine state and met with displaced Muslims in Sittwe's Dar Paing camp and Maungdaw, and urged Myanmar to grant citizenship to the Rohingyas.