Dhaka, Sept. 23 -- Bangladesh's Chief Adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has called on the international community to expand financial and technical support for countries in transition, warning that reducing aid or cutting UN budgets would be "counterproductive" at a time of deepening global crises.

Speaking at a UN high-level side event on 'Social Business, Youth and Technology' at the UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, Yunus described the world as standing "at a crossroads", faced with the interwoven challenges of climate breakdown, widening inequality, and escalating conflicts.

"These crises are not isolated," he said. "They are intertwined-threads of a fragile tapestry, each pulling at the other, shaping the whole of our existen...