Prof Yunus returns from UNGA, pushing for urgent Gaza solution

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus returned home on Thursday morning after a nine-day visit to New York for the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where he urged world leaders to confront global crises with urgency and vision.An Emirates Airlines flight carrying Prof Yunus and his small entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9am. Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Tareq Md Ariful Islam and Permanent Representative to the UN Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury saw him off at John F Kennedy International Airport, said his Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder.Prof Yunus began his UNGA programme on September 22, wrapping it up on Tuesday with a high-level conference on the “Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities” at the UN General Assembly Hall.On September 26, he addressed the assembly, warning that “the truth before us is frightening” as “extreme nationalism, geopolitics that thrive on the suffering of others, and ...

• 02 Oct 2025