Myanmar Agrees To Start Taking Back Rohingya This Year
Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday.
Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed it, seeking time for logistical arrangements. We pushed to initiate the repatriation in the first quarter, but Myanmar sought more time for logistical arrangements and some physical arrangements. So we asked to start repatriation in the second quarter, and they agreed on it, Bangladesh s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said after the meeting.
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Rohingya: Why Bangladesh is in a diplomatic fix over Saudi repatriation
Riyadh has urged Bangladesh to take back some 54,000 Rohingya that are currently in Saudi Arabia. But agreeing to this would complicate Bangladesh s Rohingya repatriation talks with Myanmar.
Bangladeshi foreign minister told DW that many Rohingya bribed Bangladeshi officials to get the country s passports
In a recent interview with DW, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen said that authorities in Dhaka could provide legal documents to some of the Rohingya that live in Saudi Arabia.
The Muslim Rohingya are an ethnic minority originating in Myanmar s Rakhine state. However, Myanmar refuses to recognize them as citizens. For decades, the Rohingya have fled from persecution to other countries, most of them to neighboring Bangladesh.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s envoy to Bangladesh said on Thursday that Islamabad had lifted all restrictions on visas for Bangladeshi citizens and that his country was now awaiting a similar response from Dhaka.
Following a recent meeting between Pakistani High Commissioner Imran Ahmed Siddiqui and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence, Islamabad announced that the two countries wanted to “strengthen” bilateral ties.
And in a statement issued after Thursday’s meeting between Siddiqui and Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, the Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh said: “Pakistan has already removed all restrictions on Pakistani visas for Bangladeshi citizens. The two sides agreed to intensify bilateral contacts at all levels.”