Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus held meetings on Thursday with the chiefs of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the International Labour Organisation at a hotel in New York of the United States.
High commissioner of the UNHCR Filippo Grandi discussed the Rohingya crisis with professor Yunus.
Grandi called for a new approach to the crisis saying that the international communities should do more to end the miseries of more than one million Rohingyas in the camps in Bangladesh.
He said that the assumption of professor Yunus as the new leader of Bangladesh had increased global interest in the Rohingya crisis.
He expressed the hope that there would be more funding for the Rohingya humanitarian responses.
鈥楾he $700 million from the World Bank is a good starting point. The UN stands ready to support more for the education of the Rohingya children,鈥� he said.
Professor Yunus stressed finding a quick solution to the crisis and doing more for the future of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children, growing up in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
鈥榃e have to resolve this before it is too late. We have to find a solution,鈥� he said.
ILO director general Gilbert Houngbo also called on the chief adviser at a New York hotel later on Thursday.
Houngbo offered the UN labour agency鈥檚 support to the interim government鈥檚 move to implement ILO conventions in Bangladesh.
鈥榃e are at your disposal,鈥� he said, adding that the ILO would respond to his all 鈥榠f and when鈥� he needed it.
The chief adviser said that labour reforms were a top priority of his government, as it saw the issue as a key to turning Bangladesh into a world class manufacturing hub.
鈥榃e are very serious about this,鈥� Yunus said, adding that addressing labour issues would draw more foreign direct investment in Bangladesh.