UNB, Dhaka :
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government has ‘sold itself’ to Myanmar through signing the Rohingya repatriation instrument with the neighbouring country.
“Under which compulsion have you (govt) sold yourself to Myanmar without understating the country’s interests? You should tell the nation from where you received the pressure to do so,” he said.
Fakhrul came up with the comments while speaking at a discussion arranged by
Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, marking BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman’s 53rd birthday.
Earlier on Thursday, Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an ‘instrument’ on the Rohingya repatriation with high hopes that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas would start returning to their homeland within the next two months.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at a press conference on Saturday said Myanmar would take back the displaced persons of Rakhine state who entered Bangladesh after October 9, 2016 and August 25, 2017 following the document signed with Myanmar.
Fakhrul said UN body UNHCR voiced concern over the agreement as the current condition of Myanmar is not suitable for safe and sustainable return of Rohingyas.
He also came down hard on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her remarks that Bangladesh never ever earned such huge diplomatic success, saying the government’s achievement is that it signed the repatriation document accepting all the conditions of Myanmar. “I want to say with regret that the current regime has no sense of self dignity.”
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government has ‘sold itself’ to Myanmar through signing the Rohingya repatriation instrument with the neighbouring country.
“Under which compulsion have you (govt) sold yourself to Myanmar without understating the country’s interests? You should tell the nation from where you received the pressure to do so,” he said.
Fakhrul came up with the comments while speaking at a discussion arranged by
Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, marking BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman’s 53rd birthday.
Earlier on Thursday, Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an ‘instrument’ on the Rohingya repatriation with high hopes that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas would start returning to their homeland within the next two months.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at a press conference on Saturday said Myanmar would take back the displaced persons of Rakhine state who entered Bangladesh after October 9, 2016 and August 25, 2017 following the document signed with Myanmar.
Fakhrul said UN body UNHCR voiced concern over the agreement as the current condition of Myanmar is not suitable for safe and sustainable return of Rohingyas.
He also came down hard on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her remarks that Bangladesh never ever earned such huge diplomatic success, saying the government’s achievement is that it signed the repatriation document accepting all the conditions of Myanmar. “I want to say with regret that the current regime has no sense of self dignity.”
