UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Sunday opposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for creating ‘safe zones’ for Rohingyas in Myanmar terming it a ‘conspiratorial and dangerous’ move.
The party also renewed its call for creating a national unity to face the Rohingya crisis and successfully repatriate Myanmar citizens taken shelter in Bangladesh in the face of genocide and severe persecution in their homeland.
BNP Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the call while presenting the party’s four-point proposal for tackling the Rohingya crisis at a roundtable discussion.
The party’s proposals include creating a national unity to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis and take back its citizens ensuring their citizenship, rights and dignity,
recognising those taken shelter in the country from Myanmar as refugees and intensifying diplomatic efforts to involve the international community and the UN to put a serious pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya problem permanently.
The BNP leader also proposed the government to follow two repatriation agreements signed during BNP’s rules in 1978 and 1992 to have a sustainable solution to the refugee problem.
The party arranged the programme titled ‘Genocide in Myanmar and the Role of Bangladesh’ at a city hotel. Ex-ambassador M Serajul Islam presented the keynote paper at the programme.
Diplomats from the USA, the UK, Canada, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Australia, the Maldives, the EU, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, representatives from the UNDP and Democratic International, politicians, academicians and ex-ambassadors participated in it.
Mosharraf said, “The Prime Minister talked about safe zones in her address to the United Nations’ General Assembly. It’s a vague term. We think any safe zone will be harmful to and dangerous for both Bangladesh and Rohingyas. It’s also against our national interest. So, we reject the proposal for creating the safe zone.”
BNP on Sunday opposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for creating ‘safe zones’ for Rohingyas in Myanmar terming it a ‘conspiratorial and dangerous’ move.
The party also renewed its call for creating a national unity to face the Rohingya crisis and successfully repatriate Myanmar citizens taken shelter in Bangladesh in the face of genocide and severe persecution in their homeland.
BNP Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the call while presenting the party’s four-point proposal for tackling the Rohingya crisis at a roundtable discussion.
The party’s proposals include creating a national unity to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis and take back its citizens ensuring their citizenship, rights and dignity,
recognising those taken shelter in the country from Myanmar as refugees and intensifying diplomatic efforts to involve the international community and the UN to put a serious pressure on Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya problem permanently.
The BNP leader also proposed the government to follow two repatriation agreements signed during BNP’s rules in 1978 and 1992 to have a sustainable solution to the refugee problem.
The party arranged the programme titled ‘Genocide in Myanmar and the Role of Bangladesh’ at a city hotel. Ex-ambassador M Serajul Islam presented the keynote paper at the programme.
Diplomats from the USA, the UK, Canada, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Australia, the Maldives, the EU, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, representatives from the UNDP and Democratic International, politicians, academicians and ex-ambassadors participated in it.
Mosharraf said, “The Prime Minister talked about safe zones in her address to the United Nations’ General Assembly. It’s a vague term. We think any safe zone will be harmful to and dangerous for both Bangladesh and Rohingyas. It’s also against our national interest. So, we reject the proposal for creating the safe zone.”
