Rohingya crisis: Foreign Minister in talks with Tint Swe

Staff Correspondent: Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali is holding a meeting with Myanmar de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's representative Kyaw Tint Swe over Rohingya refugees.

The meeting started at 11:00 am on Monday at state guesthouse Padma in Dhaka.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury and Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque joined the meeting.

Earlier, minister of the office of state counselor Kyaw Tint Swe arrived at Shahjalal International Airport by a Thai Airways flight around 1:05am on Monday.



Some 507,000 new arrivals of Myanmar’s fleeing Rohingya population are reported as off September 30, including 453,300 new arrivals identified in IOM’s Needs and Population Monitoring assessments in four upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district, says a new report on Sunday.



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