UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and actor Cate Blanchett will brief United Nations Security Council on Tuesday (August 28), reports UNB.
Her goal is to draw attention to the plight and resilience of Rohingyas she met in Bangladesh recently, UK office at the UN and UN Refugee agency tweeted on Thursday.
The UN Security Council will hold an ‘open briefing’ on the situation in Myanmar under the UK Presidency on August 28, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the news agency.
He said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees are scheduled to brief the Council.
During her Bangladesh visit, Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett urged Myanmar to create decent conditions in Rakhine Sate for the safe return of Rohingyas saying the solution to Rohingya crisis lies in Myanmar.
“Ultimately, I think, the key here is to address their statelessness,” she told in an interview after her Bangladesh visit mentioning that much more needs to be done to make sure there are decent conditions for the refugees to return safely when they want to.
The UNHCR envoy, who was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in May 2016, said the conditions right now in Rakhine state are clearly not conducive to the safe and voluntary return, or the dignified return of the refugees who have fled to Bangladesh.
Myanmar authorities have taken little efforts to make any tangible progress to improve conditions in Rakhine State for the safe return of Rohingyas in almost one year into the crisis began though the international community, including the UN, remains actively seized with the issue, officials said.
