Chief Adviser of the interim government Dr Muhammad Yunus is scheduled to travel to the US to attend the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly from 22 to 29 September.
He will travel with a team of seven people, which includes his daughter Deena Afroz Yunus; Debapriya Bhattacharya, a member of the white paper committee on economy; Shahidul Alam, managing director of Drik; Lamiya Morshed, principal coordinator for SDGs Affairs; Mahfuj Alam, special assistant to chief adviser; Shabbir Ahmad, assistant private secretary to chief adviser and Aysha Siddique Tithi, a student of BRAC University.
This is one of the smallest teams to travel to attend a UNGA. Sheikh Hasina in 2015 traveled to the US with a team of 227 people to attend the 70th UNGA and UN special summit on Sustainable Development
In 2014 the number was 178 for the 69th UNGA last year, while the number was 134 in 2013..