Mentioning that Rohingyas will have a better living in Bhashan Char once
relocated there, Bangladesh on Tuesday said it will not force any of
the displaced people to avail of the relocation opportunity.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen
shared Bangladesh’s position with visiting US acting assistant
secretary Alice Wells during a meeting held at his office on Tuesday
evening.
Dr Momen and the senior US official briefed reporters separately at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the hour-long meeting, reports UNB.
Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1
million Rohingyas who have fled their homeland in Rakhine State after
being persecuted by their own country.
Two repatriation attempts were
unsuccessful as Myanmar “failed to remove trust deficit” among the
Rohingyas and there was “lack of conducive environment” in Rakhine for
their return.

Last week, Bangladesh accused Myanmar of
remaining engaged in a “persistent campaign” to mislead the
international community to avoid its obligations for “sustained
repatriation” and reintegration of the Rohingyas.
Dhaka also rejected “baseless
accusations, falsification, and misrepresentation of facts” by Nay Pyi
Taw, and urged it to stop concocted campaign and concentrate on the
fulfilment of its obligations.
“Myanmar must act decisively to address
the real causes that are preventing the displaced Rohingya from going
back voluntarily,” said the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry.
The ministry said it was a “matter of
utter dismay” to witness such tenacious campaign with fabricated
information, misrepresentation of facts, unsubstantiated claims and
undue accusations on part of Myanmar to mislead the international
community.
Bangladesh said Myanmar should seriously
consider a comprehensive participation of the international community in
creating conducive environment for the return as well as in the
monitoring of repatriation and reintegration process.
“Myanmar should also cooperate with the
international community to eliminate the culture of impunity for the
sake of a durable solution to the protracted problem,” the Foreign
Ministry said.
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