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Washington has assured Dhaka of its “full support” to implement the first-ever national strategy to address the problem of refugees and undocumented Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh.
The foreign ministry said the assurance came when Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque met with Us Assistant Secretary at the Population, Refugee and Migration (PRM) Bureau Anne Richard at the State Department on Thursday.
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Bangladesh, which gave shelter to thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled the Rakhine province after sectarian clashes over the years, adopted a strategy to identify, locate and deport the undocumented Myanmar citizens to their homeland.
The cabinet approved the national strategy last September.
The foreign ministry in a media release on Friday said the assistant secretary highly appreciated the Bangladesh government for adopting the National Strategy and promised “to extend full support of the US Government towards implementation of the strategy”.
She also assured the Secretary of US’s continued “constructive engagement” with Myanmar “to quickly and effectively” resolve the problem of Burmese Muslims.
The Foreign Secretary thanked the US side for its continued engagements with Myanmar.
He particularly appreciated the US President’s insistence that the displacement of Myanmar Muslims should be resolved within Myanmar as it was their place of origin.
According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, over 200,000 with 30,000 documented refugees are living in two government-run camps – the Kutupalong and Nayaparha – in Bangladesh.
However, the government says 500,000 more are living outside the camps in the country.
The foreign secretary is visiting Washington to attend a global fund meeting on counter-terrorism.
On Friday, he met Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller at the State Department and discussed a wide range of global issues of mutual interests.
He also saw senior officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Senior Director for South Asia of National Security Staff at the White House Nicholas Dean, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on Development Daniella Ballou-Aares.
source: US pledges help to Dhaka on Rohingya crisis -
bdnews24.com
The foreign ministry said the assurance came when Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque met with Us Assistant Secretary at the Population, Refugee and Migration (PRM) Bureau Anne Richard at the State Department on Thursday.
File Photo
Bangladesh, which gave shelter to thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled the Rakhine province after sectarian clashes over the years, adopted a strategy to identify, locate and deport the undocumented Myanmar citizens to their homeland.
The cabinet approved the national strategy last September.
The foreign ministry in a media release on Friday said the assistant secretary highly appreciated the Bangladesh government for adopting the National Strategy and promised “to extend full support of the US Government towards implementation of the strategy”.
She also assured the Secretary of US’s continued “constructive engagement” with Myanmar “to quickly and effectively” resolve the problem of Burmese Muslims.
The Foreign Secretary thanked the US side for its continued engagements with Myanmar.
He particularly appreciated the US President’s insistence that the displacement of Myanmar Muslims should be resolved within Myanmar as it was their place of origin.
According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, over 200,000 with 30,000 documented refugees are living in two government-run camps – the Kutupalong and Nayaparha – in Bangladesh.
However, the government says 500,000 more are living outside the camps in the country.
The foreign secretary is visiting Washington to attend a global fund meeting on counter-terrorism.
On Friday, he met Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller at the State Department and discussed a wide range of global issues of mutual interests.
He also saw senior officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Senior Director for South Asia of National Security Staff at the White House Nicholas Dean, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on Development Daniella Ballou-Aares.
source: US pledges help to Dhaka on Rohingya crisis -
bdnews24.com
