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BSS . New York
22 Sep 2022
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi holds a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Tuesday– BSS Photo Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has iterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.
The prime minister made this call while UN High
Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at
the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel 0n Tuesday.
Foreign
Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen briefed the newsmen about the activities of
the Prime Minister on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
In the meeting with Grandi, Sheikh Hasina also emphasized enhancing UNHCR’s activities in Myanmar on Rohingya issues.
In reply, Grandi said that he would visit Myanmar soon.
The
prime minister restated that the Rohingya crisis can only be resolved
through repatriating the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their
motherland Myanmar.
The UNHCR High Commissioner also agreed with her on this matter.
During
the meeting, they discussed in details the present activities of UNHCR
to help the Rohingyas who took shelter in Cox’s Bazar and Bhashanchar in
Bangladesh.
Later, prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court (ICC) Karim AA Khan QC also called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
at the same venue here.
They discussed various aspects of cooperation between Bangladesh and the ICC.
The
prime minister has assured the ICC Prosecutor that Bangladesh will
continue cooperation with all ongoing efforts at the ICC to ensure
justice and accountability for the Rohingya victims in Myanmar. Khan in
the meeting expressed his interest to visit Bangladesh early next year.
Meanwhile,
Executive Director of the UN Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif also paid a
courtesy call on the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
In the meeting
at bilateral meeting room of the Lotte New York Palace hotel here, they
discussed Bangladesh government’s steps considering the importance of
sustainable urbanization and the areas of future cooperation.
In
this connection, the prime minister informed him about the success of
the Ashrayan Project undertaken by her government for the landless and
homeless people of Bangladesh.
Replying to a query regarding the
recent incident of landing shell at Bangladesh-Myanmar border, the
Bangladesh Foreign Minister said the incident of falling shell by
Myanmar inside Bangladesh border is an “unintentional mistake”.
The Myanmar authority informed that they are not shelling inside Bangladesh targeting it, he added.
“That particular border area is very much crisscrossed. Sometimes it is
difficult to understand the border --- they are not shelling inside our
border intentionally, one and two shells that landed inside our border,
it happened by mistake,” he added.
Momen also said that
Bangladesh Foreign Ministry summoned Myanmar Ambassador and the Myanmar
authority promised that they will maintain cautiousness.
Responding
to another question, the Foreign Minister said that the US government
did not give any specific information regarding sanction on some former
and present RAB officials.
He said the government wanted to know the reason of imposing sanction.
“Still, they did not give any specific information. So we do not know...,” he said.
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