Bangladesh, Myanmar and China will hold a tripartite meeting on Rohingya repatriation in Dhaka on January 19 as Dhaka finds their repatriation to Myanmar as only solution to the crisis.
‘We hope it would be a fruitful meeting,’ foreign minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters on Wednesday about the tripartite talks.
He said the meeting will be held at secretary level while such tripartite meeting was last held on January 20 last year.
The foreign minister said Bangladesh has handed over a list of 8, 40,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification.
‘Myanmar has verified very few people. They're very slow. They verified only 42,000 people. There is serious lack of seriousness,’ said the foreign minister.
Momen said they are doing their part of the job but Myanmar is not responding the same way.
Responding to a question, he said he is always hopeful of beginning repatriation as history says they took back their nationals in 1978 and 1992.
The government, earlier, hinted that the repatriation talks would begin this month as there was no Rohingya repatriation and discussion in 2020 as those collided with COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar general elections.
Big countries find the repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is the only solution.
Over 800,000 Rohingyas fled the ‘genocidal violence’ and Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas.
