Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh seeks urgent global action

Bangladesh has called for an urgent bilateral and global action to resolve the Rohingya crisis permanently.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen made the call at an event at General Assembly, UN Headquarter in New York, said the Bangladesh Mission on Monday.

He said, “We stress that Bangladesh can bilaterally address only perhaps the issue of the possible voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar,

but all related larger questions and issues would have to be addressed by Myanmar with the international community’s continued support and monitoring on behalf of the Rohingyas”.

The ambassador pointed out Bangladesh government’s continuing engagement with the Myanmar authorities in good faith, reports UNB.

He urged the donor countries and entities to respond to the pressing and increasing needs for resources identified by the relevant humanitarian actors, in the spirit of responsibility and burden sharing.

Masud reiterated Bangladesh’s appreciation for humanitarian assistance given so far, and pledges made in response to the UN-revised response plan to the tune of $434 million for the first six-month period.

The country’s Permanent Representative at the UN thanked the EU and Kuwait for convening the high-level Pledging Conference in Geneva on October 23 in 2017.

Bangladesh signed a Rohingya repatriation deal with Myanmar in late November.