US to stand beside Bangladesh to end Rohingya crisis: Bernicat

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat today said her country will stand beside Bangladesh to mitigate the crisis of Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar.

She said the US will provide all kinds of humanitarian assistance to the Rohingyas who have taken shelters in different camps in Bangladesh.

The US ambassador came up the remarks while talking to reporters after she visited a registered and an unregistered Rohingya camps in Kutupalang area in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar this afternoon.

During her four hours visit starting from around 11:30am to 3.30pm, Marcia Bernicat talked to huge Rohingya men and women in the camps to know their present conditions.

According to the latest estimates, over 480,000 Rohingya refugees had arrived in Bangladesh since August 25 this year.

Meanwhile, the United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $6 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to address the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, said a press release issued by Embassy of the United States of America today.  

This funding is in addition to the $1 million provided to the WFP earlier this year. This assistance will support food distributions as well as the needed logistics to provide humanitarian assistance, added the press release.