Bangladesh agrees to UN call to open humanitarian corridor for Myanmar citizens

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees wait at the World Food Programme distribution centre to purchase grocery items, at the refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 15, 2025. Bangladesh is hosting more than 1.3 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Cox’s Bazar. - Reuters

DHAKA: Bangladesh has agreed to a request by the United Nations (UN) to establish a humanitarian corridor along its border with Myanmar’s Rakhine state for citizens of the war-torn country, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported.

"The UN wants to create a humanitarian corridor through Bangladesh to send humanitarian aid to Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The transitional government has agreed in principle to this, subject to conditions,” Foreign Affairs Adviser Md. Towhid Hossain told reporters in the capital, Dhaka on Sunday (April 27).