UNB, Dhaka :
Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar Bob Rae has suggested Canada to push the Rohingya issue at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London on April 16-20and during Canada’s G7 presidency in 2018 to have a solution to the crisis.
He said Canada should also seek partnership opportunities with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its members at the OIC’s 45th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) Meeting to be held in Dhaka in May.
Bob Rae came up with the observation in his final report on the Rohingya crisis in which he also said Canada should take a leadership role in responding to the current crisis by stepping up humanitarian and development efforts in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The envoy in his report said Canada should urge like-minded countries to establish an International Working Group to ensure that, to the extent possible, policies, programmes, and persuasion are exercised in a coordinated fashion.
“This would include countries in the region as well as those committed to joint efforts.” He said Canada should establish a Rohingya Working Group within the government of Canada, to be chaired by a senior deputy minister, to ensure a ‘whole of government’ response to all the elements of an effective policy, according to the report a copy of which UNB obtained. The Rohingya Working Group would report directly to a Cabinet Committee, monitor the ongoing crisis, and recommend further steps and expenditures necessary to ensure Canada’s effective response and leadership in this crisis.
The Group could issue reports to Parliament and the Canadian public in real time about the full extent of the crisis, he said. The special envoy said regional dynamics need to be taken into consideration as they respond to the crisis. “There’s no doubt that China is currently playing a key role in Southeast and South Asia, as it is in the wider world. It is an investor in both Myanmar and Bangladesh,” the report reads.
Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar Bob Rae has suggested Canada to push the Rohingya issue at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London on April 16-20and during Canada’s G7 presidency in 2018 to have a solution to the crisis.
He said Canada should also seek partnership opportunities with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its members at the OIC’s 45th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) Meeting to be held in Dhaka in May.
Bob Rae came up with the observation in his final report on the Rohingya crisis in which he also said Canada should take a leadership role in responding to the current crisis by stepping up humanitarian and development efforts in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The envoy in his report said Canada should urge like-minded countries to establish an International Working Group to ensure that, to the extent possible, policies, programmes, and persuasion are exercised in a coordinated fashion.
“This would include countries in the region as well as those committed to joint efforts.” He said Canada should establish a Rohingya Working Group within the government of Canada, to be chaired by a senior deputy minister, to ensure a ‘whole of government’ response to all the elements of an effective policy, according to the report a copy of which UNB obtained. The Rohingya Working Group would report directly to a Cabinet Committee, monitor the ongoing crisis, and recommend further steps and expenditures necessary to ensure Canada’s effective response and leadership in this crisis.
The Group could issue reports to Parliament and the Canadian public in real time about the full extent of the crisis, he said. The special envoy said regional dynamics need to be taken into consideration as they respond to the crisis. “There’s no doubt that China is currently playing a key role in Southeast and South Asia, as it is in the wider world. It is an investor in both Myanmar and Bangladesh,” the report reads.
