‘We will be able to resolve Rohingya crisis’

Parliament Correspondent:  Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has said that we will be able to reach a permanent solution to Rohingya crisis on the basis of bilateral friendship and mutual understandings through further strengthening multifaceted relations with Myanmar.

The minister said this on Tuesday in the Jatiya Sangsad while responding to a written question from treasury bench member Begum Pinu Khan.

He expressed the hope that Dhaka would be able to repatriate the Rohingya refugees, who took shelter insides Bangladesh following persecution of the law enforcement agencies in Myanmar’s Rakhaine state, to their homeland peacefully on the basis of international opinion.

Listing different activities of the government to solve the problem and repatriation of the Rohinga refugees, Mahmood Ali said Bangladesh is continuing discussions with the Myanmar government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to repatriate them to Rakhaine state of Myanmar soon.

In this connection, he said at present around 33,000 registered and over 300,000 unregistered Myanmar citizens are staying in different Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Chittagong and other parts of the country.

Recently more than 67,000 Myanmar citizens entered Bangladesh being persecuted by Myanmar authorities.



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