PM seeks global community`s role in resolving Rohingya crisis

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought the global community's enhanced focus and active support to find a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis.

She was addressing the 76th UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday night.

She said the Rohingya crisis was passing its fifth year now but "yet not a single forcibly displaced Myanmar national could be repatriated --- I would like to reiterate that the crisis was created in Myanmar and its solution lies in Myanmar".

"Myanmar must create the conditions conducive for their return," Sheikh Hasina said.

But, she added "International community must work constructively for a permanent solution of the crisis through safe, sustainable, and dignified return of the Rohingyas to their home in the Rakhine State”.

The premier particularly expected the ASEAN leadership to step up their ongoing efforts alongside the rest of the international community to support all the accountability processes.

She said her government recently relocated some Rohingyas to an offshore island of Bhashan Char "on our part, to ensure their temporary stay in Bangladesh".

The premier said despite vaccine constraints the Rohingyas were incorporated under Bangladesh's inoculation campaign to stop spread of COVID-19 in their camps.