The Daily Star
January 24, 2021
Unb, Dhaka
Unb, Dhaka
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photoForeign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photo
Bangladesh has sought effective and proactive support from the international community to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis apart from management of the huge displacement.
"We need effective and proactive support from the international community to manage this huge displacement," said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.
"We need effective and proactive support from the international community to manage this huge displacement," said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.
He said the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) provides a voluntary, non-binding and government-led process to discuss all possible solutions.
The minister also said they had the firsthand experience as Bangladesh is hosting 1.1 million Rohingyas who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral home and a good number of Bangladesh population was regularly displaced due to erratic climate change every year.
The minister also said they had the firsthand experience as Bangladesh is hosting 1.1 million Rohingyas who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral home and a good number of Bangladesh population was regularly displaced due to erratic climate change every year.
Momen made the remarks during his intervention at the ongoing 13th GFMD Summit -- Future of Human Mobility: Innovative Partnerships for Sustainable Development -- being held virtually from January 18-26.
He thanked the current chair the UAE for its excellent leadership in organising the first-ever virtual GFMD Summit amid the Covid-19 pandemic successfully.
Momen said migration is now a defining issue of their time, a natural global demographic phenomenon and no country can deal with it alone.
Momen said migration is now a defining issue of their time, a natural global demographic phenomenon and no country can deal with it alone.
"Shared responsibility, cooperation and inclusiveness are critical in addressing challenges to effective migration governance."
The minister said they should take all measures keeping the ultimate interest of the migrants at the centre of all of their activities.
"Of late, we see that migration and displacements are increasingly taking place for reasons beyond the capacity of the migrants like climate change, sudden natural disasters and forced displacement," he observed.
The minister said they should take all measures keeping the ultimate interest of the migrants at the centre of all of their activities.
"Of late, we see that migration and displacements are increasingly taking place for reasons beyond the capacity of the migrants like climate change, sudden natural disasters and forced displacement," he observed.
Momen said the responsibility to decide the future of GFMD lies with them, the participating member states.
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