Bangladesh is hoping that Rohingya refugees will start returning to Myanmar after the meeting of the joint working group of the two countries scheduled for later this week, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen told Sputnik
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th April, 2019) Bangladesh is hoping that Rohingya refugees will start returning to Myanmar after the meeting of the joint working group of the two countries scheduled for later this week, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen told Sputnik.The fourth meeting of the Bangladesh-Myanmar joint working group will be held on Friday, May 3.
"All Myanmar people should go back to their country. This will be our fourth joint commission meeting. And Myanmar already agreed, we gave a list and, out of verified data, 8,000 something plus, these people are their residents, they are from Myanmar. And in the fourth meeting I hope they will start taking them," the minister said.
Momen remarked that there were some issues with the return.
"There are some international organizations like the UN agencies, UNHCR and others, they want to see and also we want that they go back in safety and security. Myanmar must ensure it. We agree and Russia also agrees that those things can be provided by ... ASEAN plus," the minister said.
Momen added that Bangladesh would not mind Russia joining to ensure the security as well.
The foreign minister stressed that Bangladesh would not force the refugees out. He added, however, that his country could only provide them with basic necessities like food and shelter, "but not more than that."
"They have no future in our country ... So for their own well-being they should go back and live like real citizens of their country," Momen said.
Insurgents from Rohingya minority have clashed with the government of Myanmar several times in the past. After the government launched a special operation in August 2017 in the state of Rakhine, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh.
