Dhaka, June 17 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has sought assistance from the United Nations in a fair inquiry into the incidents of enforced disappearances that occurred during the Awami League's tenure spanning over the past one and a half decades.

In a meeting on Monday with a visiting UN delegation focused on enforced disappearances in Dhaka, he said Bangladesh would welcome any such support.

He told the delegation that the term of the commission established to investigate enforced disappearances in Bangladesh is being extended until December.

The head of the interim government met with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) Vice-Chairperson Grazyna Baranowska and member Ana Lorena Delgad...