• About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Career
  • Contact Us
Assamese |   Bengali |  
Thursday, January 28, 2021
NORTHEAST NOW
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
NORTHEAST NOW
Assamese
Home Neighbour China

Rohingya repatriation: Bangladesh-Myanmar-China tripartite meeting on January 19

We hope it will be a fruitful meeting: Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister AK Abdul Momen

Subir Bhaumik by SUBIR BHAUMIK
GUWAHATI , January 14, 2021 12:44 pm
Rohingya repatriation: Bangladesh-Myanmar-China tripartite meeting on January 19

Rohingya people reach out to collect food and water rations at a newly set-up refugee camp at Balukhali in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is under attack over her response to a fresh round of violence that has seen more than 145,000 minority Rohingya Muslims flee into neighboring Bangladesh since last month. Photographer: Ismail Ferdous/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Bangladesh has turned to China to facilitate an early start of repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

A secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar, mediated by China, will be held on January 19 in Dhaka.

Top Bangladesh officials have informed that the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees would dominate the discussions at during the meeting.

Myanmar has so far has expressed reservations on the issues related to repatriation of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees.

“Myanmar has not cooperated in ironing out issues to do with the return of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, but Bangladesh is hopeful that some headway will made in the upcoming meeting,” said Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister AK Abdul Momen.

Also read: PM Narendra Modi extends greetings on Magh Bihu, Makar Sankranti and Pongal

“We hope it will be a fruitful meeting,” Momen said.

Meanwhile, Global Human Rights groups and the West are instead ‘pressurizing’ Bangladesh to rehabilitate nearly one million Rohingya refugees and opposing their relocation to the offshore island of Bhasan Char.

On the other hand, Bangladesh has defended the relocation citing it as the “only viable option” to provide reasonable space to nearly 100,000 Rohingyas.

Bangladesh has further urged the superpowers to instead ‘pressurize’ Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen insisted that Repatriation rather than rehabilitation should dominate the Rohingya discourse, as it was “impossible for a poor and an overcrowded country” like Bangladesh to permanently absorb one million Rohingyas.

Momen, meanwhile, has urged both India and China to use influence over Myanmar to persuade them to take back the Rohingyas without creating “needless procedural fuss”.

Also read: Donald Trump impeached again, becomes first President in US history to face impeachment twice

China has however voted against a recent UN motion pulling up Myanmar for Rohingya atrocities while India abstained.

Both India and China have, however, assured Bangladesh that they will use their goodwill with Myanmar for an early solution to the Rohingya issue.

TikTok

Ban impact: TikTok scales down India operation

flood

Only adaptive capacity can reduce flood miseries in Assam: NGO

Goalpara DC

Assam: Goalpara DC launches Jal Shakti ministry programme ‘Catch the Rain’

3 ULFA(I) cadres

Assam Rifles personnel nab 3 ULFA(I) cadres in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district   

NORTHEAST NOW

Northeast Now is a multi-app based hyper-regional bilingual news portal. Led by a group of professionals, the digital news platform covers every inch of the eight states of northeast India and the five neighbouring countries. It is the first of its kind new media initiative in the northeast, and is based in Guwahati. As the political dynamics in the northeast is intricate and fluid, Northeast Now is always politically neutral.

 
Our Properties
 
  • NORTHEAST NOW ASSAMESE
  • NORTHEAST JOBS
  • NORTHEAST TENDERS
  • INNFINITY
  • About Us
  • Copyright Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Authors
  • Career
  • Contact Us

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NORTH EAST
    • Assam
    • Meghalaya
    • Tripura
    • Mizoram
    • Manipur
    • Nagaland
    • Arunachal
    • Sikkim
  • Neighbours
    • Nepal
    • Bhutan
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Bangladesh
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Environment
  • Citizen Journalists
  • Opinion

© 2019 - Maintained by EZEN Software & Technology Pvt. Ltd