Amid growing international pressure on Myanmar, the country’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi sent her representative to discuss the Rohingya issue with the Bangladesh government.
Minister of the Office of State Counselor Kyaw Tint Swe arrived at the Dhaka Shahjalal international Airport by a Thai Airways flight around 1:05 am on Monday.
The Myanmar minister will hold meetings with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at 11:00 am on Monday at the state guesthouse Padma.
Minister Swe had wished to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, but the Bangladesh premier is scheduled to return home on October 7.
Myanmar’s Rakhine state has been in a volatile state since August 25, which has forced more than 500,000 Rohingya refugees to cross the border into Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar.
Bangladesh government has decided to shelter the refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing and latest data shows 429,000 refugees are in need of emergency food assistance.
Among the new arrivals, an estimated 55,770 pregnant and lactating women, and children under 5, require targeted food assistance.
Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque earlier said Bangladesh keeps door open to discuss and resolve the Rohingya issue bilaterally apart from discussing it in international forums.
Around 507,000 new arrivals of Myanmar’s fleeing Rohingya population are reported as of September 30, including 453,300 new arrivals identified in IOM’s Needs and Population Monitoring assessments in four upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district, says a new report on Sunday.
The latest figure includes 35,000 in refugee camps reported by UNHCR and 18,700 reported by field staff in Naikhongchhari (Bandarban district).
Over the last two days, movement across the border in Cox’s Bazar has reportedly decreased again, according to the report “Situation Report: Rohingya Crisis”.
The Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), convened by the IOM, in collaboration with humanitarian partners prepared the report that covered September 21 – 27
Source: The Daily Ittefaq
