U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries as “a crime.”

The United Nations will do all it can to help prevent food rations being cut for Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday during a visit to the world’s largest refugee settlement.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further hardship as drastic aid cuts threaten food supplies and other critical relief efforts.

General António Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh for a first-hand look at the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees as fears mount of serious aid cuts.

According to diplomatic sources, the UN has been seeking to send humanitarian aid to Rakhine through Bangladesh amid a fear of famine-like situation there as was reported by the UNDP in November last year.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the UN will do all it can to help prevent food rations from being cut for Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps. Guterres made this vow on Friday during a visit to the world’s largest refugee settlement.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday denounced the humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries in Europe. Guterres was on a four-day visit to Bangladesh where he is assessing the plight of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees whose future remained uncertain over possible aid cuts soon.

The Trump administration official overseeing the dismantling of the main U.S. foreign aid agency proposed phasing out help for crisis-torn Lebanon and the Rohingya, the world's largest stateless population,