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The martial arts performance by FOWPAL in New York amazed the guests from around the world.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on September 25, called for support to be ramped up for an estimated 436,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in the last month, and the communities hosting them, and commended the Government and people of Bangladesh for their hospitality.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (left) and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit (right) signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 20 September 2017. The MoU aims to establish a global cooperation framework for an effective response to the needs of refugees in the Arab region and to facilitate better humanitarian access and emergency response.

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after traveling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal.

On 15 September 2017, newly arrived Rohingya refugee children make the long journey into Bangladesh carrying all of their possessions, after their village was torched in Myanmar.

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of the Commonwealth of Dominica addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.

Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.

Ambassador-at-large of Somalia, H.E. Mr. Abdirashid A. Sed also rings the Bell.