UNB, Dhaka :
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Thursday sought “proactive and meaningful” role of the international community for a sustainable solution to the prolonged Rohingya crisis through their repatriation to Myanmar.
“We need proactive and meaningful role of the international community,” he said adding that Bangladesh is hosting more than a million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, commonly known as Rohingyas, who fled en masse, the atrocity and persecution at the hands of their own people in Myanmar.
The State Minister made the remarks at the Mujib Borsho Webinar Series 3 on “Bettering Human Mobility for Better Interconnecting Economies” organised by Bangladesh Embassy, Amman, Jordan.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million Rohingyas. The majority of them came here since August 2017 after Myanmar military launched a brutal offensive targeting the mainly-Muslim ethnic minority.
Myanmar denies the Rohingyas citizenship despite having lived in the country for generations. They are denied basic rights and many of them are forced to live in squalid camps in apartheid-like condition.
Bangladesh has been pushing for the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals for years now. Dhaka and Naypyitaw even signed deals for Rohingya repatriation but there has been very little progress. Dhaka has recently developed the river island of Bhasan Char, located 34 kilometers from the mainland, and plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingyas there in phases.
Bangladesh has been urging the global community to take effective steps for their repatriation. Foreign Minister AK Momen said the presence of this huge number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh will pose a serious national as well as regional security threat.
On migrants, the State Minister said considering the necessities and the benefits migrants bring, they should take all measures keeping the ultimate interest of the migrants at the centre of all of our activities.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Thursday sought “proactive and meaningful” role of the international community for a sustainable solution to the prolonged Rohingya crisis through their repatriation to Myanmar.
“We need proactive and meaningful role of the international community,” he said adding that Bangladesh is hosting more than a million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, commonly known as Rohingyas, who fled en masse, the atrocity and persecution at the hands of their own people in Myanmar.
The State Minister made the remarks at the Mujib Borsho Webinar Series 3 on “Bettering Human Mobility for Better Interconnecting Economies” organised by Bangladesh Embassy, Amman, Jordan.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million Rohingyas. The majority of them came here since August 2017 after Myanmar military launched a brutal offensive targeting the mainly-Muslim ethnic minority.
Myanmar denies the Rohingyas citizenship despite having lived in the country for generations. They are denied basic rights and many of them are forced to live in squalid camps in apartheid-like condition.
Bangladesh has been pushing for the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals for years now. Dhaka and Naypyitaw even signed deals for Rohingya repatriation but there has been very little progress. Dhaka has recently developed the river island of Bhasan Char, located 34 kilometers from the mainland, and plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingyas there in phases.
Bangladesh has been urging the global community to take effective steps for their repatriation. Foreign Minister AK Momen said the presence of this huge number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh will pose a serious national as well as regional security threat.
On migrants, the State Minister said considering the necessities and the benefits migrants bring, they should take all measures keeping the ultimate interest of the migrants at the centre of all of our activities.
