UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international organisations and UN agencies should work inside Myanmar for the return of Rohingyas to their homeland.
She also said, Myanmar should start the repatriation process to take its nationals back from Bangladesh.
The Prime Minister said this when outgoing French Ambassador Marie-Annick BOURDIN met her at her official residence Ganobhaban.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international organisations and UN agencies should work inside Myanmar for the return of Rohingyas to their homeland.
She also said, Myanmar should start the repatriation process to take its nationals back from Bangladesh.
The Prime Minister said this when outgoing French Ambassador Marie-Annick BOURDIN met her at her official residence Ganobhaban.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.
He said, the Prime Minister again expressed her firm stance that Myanmar has to take back its over 1 million nationals from Bangladesh.
She also said Bangladesh continues talks with Myanmar to this end.
“Some 40,000 Rohingya babies were born in Bangladesh. How long will Bangladesh bear this huge burden of over 1 million Rohingyas?” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also said, the Rohingya population has already outnumbered the local Bangladeshis in Cox’s Bazar. “The sooner they go back to their homeland the better for all,” she said.
