Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, speaks about the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Canada's special envoy for the Rohingya crisis, Bob Rae, should enlist some of Myanmar's influential Asian neighbours to help stop attacks against its minority Muslim population, says a former United Nations disaster response chief.Jan Egeland, who was UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief at the height of some of the world's most recent crises, said he applauds Rae's appointment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keystone via AP-Martial Trezzini