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Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan may visit Myanmar as early as this month to discuss about the process of repatriating Rohingyas.
"The visit was scheduled way earlier, but in the meantime the situation in Myanmar has changed. It may happen this month," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the media in Dhaka on Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
More than half a million Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh since a counter-insurgency offensive by Myanmar's army in the wake of militant attacks on security forces in late August.
Dhaka has maintained from the very beginning that Myanmar has to take back its citizens.
The first official talks between the countries since the latest exodus, which the UN dubs as the 'world's fastest-developing refugee crisis', was held on Oct 2 when Myanmar's Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe came to Dhaka.
Home Minister Khan was part of the Bangladesh delegation led by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali during the talks.
Foreign Minister Ali told the media after that meeting that they have proposed signing a bilateral agreement for repatriation and handed over a draft to Myanmar.
He had then said his cabinet colleague Khan would go to Myanmar very soon to take the process forward.