UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has promised continued UN pressure on Myanmar and support to Dhaka in handling the Rohingya refugee crisis.

UN Secretary-General today met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at the beginning of his three-day visit in Dhaka

Prime Minister Hasina's press secretary Ihsanul Karim after the meeting informed newsmen that Guterres said the UN would keep continued pressure on Myanmar on the issue and simultaneously give Bangladesh its constant support for resolving and handling the crisis.

The UN chief feared the ethnic minority Muslim Rohingyas could be exposed to radicalisation and stressed the importance of an education system for their protection from such phenomena.

Bangladesh now shelters over a million Rohingyas since the influx began last August when the Myanmar military launched a crackdown in Buddhist-dominated western Rakhine state which the UN has described as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and rights groups have called a “genocide”.

More than 700,000 Rohingyas have crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing the violence.