UNB, Dhaka :
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Monday urged the international community to take measures for addressing the root causes of the problem related to Rohingya situation.
He made the call when visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, him at state
guesthouse Padma. State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam and senior officials of the ministry were present at the meeting that lasted for over an hour.
The Foreign Minister said the constant presence of the huge number of Myanmar nationals in Cox’s Bazar district has created a number of adverse effects on the overall socio-economic, political, demographic, environmental and humanitarian and security situation of Cox’s Bazar and adjacent districts.
He stressed the peaceful resolution of the longstanding issue of influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh and urged the international community to take measures for addressing the root causes of the problem.
We want her to see the situation on the ground physically and hear stories from Rohingya people living here,” a senior official told UNB after the meeting mentioning that the UN Rapporteur will be visiting Cox’s Bazar from Tuesday.
Lee is currently in Bangladesh for a three-day mission to Cox’s Bazar and will visit various locations in Cox’s Bazar where the population who had fled Myanmar since October 9, 2016 are residing temporarily in makeshift shelters.
During the meeting, Minister Ali apprised the Special Rapporteur of the steps that the government of Bangladesh had taken vis-à-vis Myanmar refugees and the undocumented Myanmar nationals who entered Bangladesh over the years from the Rakhine State of Myanmar, according to the Foreign Ministry here.
He informed her about the repatriation status of the refugees under an agreement negotiated by him in 1992 and informed that as many as 236,599 Rakhine Muslims had been repatriated under that agreement until it came to a halt in 2005.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Monday urged the international community to take measures for addressing the root causes of the problem related to Rohingya situation.
He made the call when visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, him at state
guesthouse Padma. State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam and senior officials of the ministry were present at the meeting that lasted for over an hour.
The Foreign Minister said the constant presence of the huge number of Myanmar nationals in Cox’s Bazar district has created a number of adverse effects on the overall socio-economic, political, demographic, environmental and humanitarian and security situation of Cox’s Bazar and adjacent districts.
He stressed the peaceful resolution of the longstanding issue of influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh and urged the international community to take measures for addressing the root causes of the problem.
We want her to see the situation on the ground physically and hear stories from Rohingya people living here,” a senior official told UNB after the meeting mentioning that the UN Rapporteur will be visiting Cox’s Bazar from Tuesday.
Lee is currently in Bangladesh for a three-day mission to Cox’s Bazar and will visit various locations in Cox’s Bazar where the population who had fled Myanmar since October 9, 2016 are residing temporarily in makeshift shelters.
During the meeting, Minister Ali apprised the Special Rapporteur of the steps that the government of Bangladesh had taken vis-à-vis Myanmar refugees and the undocumented Myanmar nationals who entered Bangladesh over the years from the Rakhine State of Myanmar, according to the Foreign Ministry here.
He informed her about the repatriation status of the refugees under an agreement negotiated by him in 1992 and informed that as many as 236,599 Rakhine Muslims had been repatriated under that agreement until it came to a halt in 2005.
