"The United Nations and international organizations will be at the centre of all recovery measures to be supported by G-7, G-20, OECD and international financial institutions," she said in a recorded video message played at the International Labour Organization’s “Global Leaders’ Day” meet. Currently, she said, repatriation of these jobless migrant workers has proved to be a huge challenge. Hasine said that the global Covid-19 pandemic that affected nations, especially affected the workers most. "We lost export orders of billions of dollars, many of our industries were closed and millions of workers lost their jobs. World leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister of Thailand General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also gave video messages.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 08, 2020 13:36 UTC