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Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen has said that the meeting of the joint working committee between Bangladesh and Myanmar on February 4, mediated by China on the Rohingya issue, has become uncertain. He said this in response to a question from reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
However, Masoud bin Momen said that the change of power in the military coup in Myanmar would not make it difficult for Dhaka to work with the country. He said Myanmar had been ruled by the military for most of the past 60 to 70 years, adding that Bangladesh would continue to function as it did Myanmar. However, so far no contact has been made with the new government, the foreign secretary said, adding that Bangladesh will continue to maintain relations with Myanmar for its own benefit.
Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen said they were awaiting Myanmar’s views on a pre-established joint working committee meeting at the director-general level.
Earlier, in the first week of February, Myanmar responded positively to the start of the Rohingya repatriation through pre-arranged talks.
Responding to a question, the Foreign Secretary said that Bangladesh wants to see the issue of the repatriation of the Rohingya discussed at today’s UN Security Council meeting on the changing political situation in Myanmar.
Previously, Myanmar had promised to begin repatriation of Rohingya on the basis of a bilateral agreement signed with Bangladesh in 2016.
Recently, the Minister of International Cooperation of Myanmar, Kaiya Tin, Minister of Foreign Affairs. He said this in a letter to AK Abdul Momen.
Furthermore, the minister said in the letter that Myanmar is committed to peaceful coexistence with all neighboring countries, including Bangladesh, and to resolving matters of mutual concern.
He said that Myanmar wants to resolve any bilateral issues on the basis of mutual partnership with neighboring countries.
He expressed his hope for the speedy repatriation of the displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar through a tripartite meeting between China, Myanmar and Bangladesh held on 19 January.
Earlier, the foreign minister said that Bangladesh had handed over a list of 840,000 Rohingya to Myanmar for review.
But Myanmar has only verified the data of 42,000 people. They are unimportant in this regard, ”he said.
Dr. Momen said that Bangladesh is doing its job correctly, but Myanmar is not.
However, the foreign minister was optimistic about the start of the repatriation. Because Myanmar regained its citizens in 1982 and 1992.
About three years ago, Myanmar troops carried out ‘killings and rapes’ against the Rohingya and burned Rohingya villages. The United Nations, Refugee International, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the United States Department of State and many more have proven it.
At that time, more than eight lakhs of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape “violent genocide” and Bangladesh has sheltered some 11 lakhs of Rohingya.
Bangladesh is trying to find a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis in various ways: bilateral, multilateral, tripartite and through the judiciary.
Bangladesh and Myanmar signed the repatriation agreement on November 23, 2016. Dhaka-Napido also signed an agreement on ‘Physical Disposition’ on January 17, 2016, which was supposed to help the Rohingya return to their homeland.
Due to the Rohingya’s lack of trust in the Myanmar government, repatriation efforts failed twice in November 2016 and August 2019.
Bangladesh has expressed “hopes” that more pressure will be exerted on Myanmar to create an environment conducive to the repatriation of the Rohingya and that repatriation will begin in the second quarter of the year.
After nearly an hour and a half of tripartite talks between Bangladesh, Myanmar and China on January 20, the foreign secretary said they wanted to learn from the previous two failed attempts so that repatriation could begin successfully.
The issue will be discussed at a meeting of the joint working committee between the two countries in the first week of February to create the conditions for repatriation.
Myanmar’s top military adviser, Aung San Suu Kyi, and President U Win Mint were detained by the country’s military on Monday morning. They said that new elections would be held in the country after the end of the one-year state of emergency and that they would return state power to the new government.
The president’s office declared a state of emergency in Myanmar after state councilors, the president and other senior officials were detained by the army. The army has said it will reform the Union Electoral Commission during the state of emergency and review the elections held in November last year.
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