Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home early hours of Sunday (Sep 29) wrapping up his four-day USA visit to attend the 79th session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other high level side events. A commercial flight of the Qatar Airways carrying the chief adviser and his entourages reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 3:32 a.m., the Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said. Earlier, the flight departed the JKF International Airport, New York, at 9:30 p.m. (NY Time) on Friday, local media reported.
During his USA tour, the Chief Adviser had 40 high-level meetings with heads of government of 12 countries, including U.S. President Joe Biden, and heads of different international organisations. He held a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joseph R Biden on Sep 24 apart from addressing the UNGA session on Friday (Sep 27).
Prof Yunus also joined bilateral talks with the United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma and Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof, among others.
Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi, President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J Blinken, Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, President of the World Bank Group Ajay Banga and USAID Administrator Samantha Power, among others, called on the chief adviser during his stay in New York.
The chief adviser also joined several high-level events in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA session. He arrived in New York on Sep 23 to attend the 79th UNGA session.
