Rohingyas: Dhaka for involving youths globally to mobilise opinion on accountability, justice

UNB
UNB News
Dhaka
Publish- July 25, 2020,

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the wave and strength of public opinion involving youths globally can help end the plight of Rohingyas and create a more sustainable world of peace and stability.

"We must involve youths in our campaign for a better and sustainable world of peace and stability. Because they’re ones who can achieve it," he said while responding to a question from UNB at a virtual briefing on Saturday.

Advance planning, joint efforts were key: speakers

Limiting Covid-19 Transmission at Rohingya Camps

The Daily Star

July 06, 2020
Unb, Dhaka

Speakers at a virtual discussion lauded the government's advance planning and joint efforts with the UN and humanitarian partners to limit the transmission of coronavirus in the Rohingya camps, saying that this story must be heard globally.

They vowed to continue working together to keep Rohingyas and the host community safe.

CRI hosted the live discussion titled "Let's Talk on Rohingya Response and Covid-19" yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh Steven Corliss, Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mahbub Alam Talukder, Medical Officer and IPC focal for Leda ITC Sumaya Tasnim and Rohingya representative Jane Alam took part in the discussion moderated by Showvik Das Tamal.

Bangladesh urges US to invest in health sector

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
June 30th, 2020

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

In a telephone conversation with US secretary of state, foreign minister also requested Washington to provide duty free quota free privilege for readymade garments for next two years

On the heels of the country's fight against Covid-19 with a fragile healthcare system, Bangladesh has requested the United States to invest in the health sector.

In a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen also requested Washington to provide duty free quota free privilege for the next two years.

Bangladesh has no obligation to take Rohingyas: FM

Bangladesh Post
By Diplomatic Correspondent
Jun.09, 2020

 Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday asserted that under no circumstances Bangladesh was obligated to take Rohingyas in the country.

He made the comment when a reporter asked him about the Rohingyas detained in Malaysia on Tuesday.

There have been reports that Malaysia is planning to push them to Bangladesh which has given shelter to over 1.1 million Myanmar nationals fled ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine State.

Rohingyas rescued from sea sent to Bhashan Char

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan and Ali Asif Shawon
May 2nd, 2020

File photo: A boat carrying suspected ethnic Rohingya migrants is seen detained in Malaysian territorial waters on April 5, 2020 Reuters

Rescued people to be sent to Bhashan Char, says the foreign minister

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have rescued an unspecified number of Rohingyas from the sea near Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The rescued are from the two Rohingya-carrying boats that have been trying to enter Bangladeshi waters from International waters for about 12 days, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told Dhaka Tribune on Saturday.

FM Momen for producing film on Rohingya stories

Daily Sun
Sun Online Desk
3rd January, 2020

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen on Thursday urged the country’s filmmakers to produce film on different stories of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar for creating further global sensitisation about the crisis.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ညႇဥ္းပန္းခံရမႈ ျမန္မာ မျငင္းဟု ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ေျပာၾကား

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
2020-01-03

■ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး အဗ္ဒူလ္ မိုမင္ Abdul Momen က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ရက္စက္စြာညႇဥ္း ပန္းေျခမႈန္းခံခဲ့ရတယ္ဆိုတဲ့အခ်က္ကို ICJ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ တရား႐ုံးမွာ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ျငင္း ဆိုခဲ့ျခင္း မရွိပါဘူး၊ Genocide လူမ်ိဳးတုံး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ေပၚေပါက္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ကိုသာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံက ကန႔္ကြက္ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႔ မေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာအေပၚ ဖိအားေပးဖို႔ နယ္သာလန္ကို ဘဂၤလားတိုက္ တြန္း

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

03 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2019 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Sheikh Hasina 

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ျပန္လည္ေခၚယူေရး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ဖိအားေပးဖို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Sheikh Hasina က နယ္သာလန္အစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ICJ ရဲ႕ ၾကားနာမႈအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အတိုင္ပင္ခံ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နယ္သာလန္ႏိုင္ငံကို ေနာက္အ ပတ္ လာေရာက္တဲ့အခါ အဲဒီလို ဖိအားေပးလိုက္ပါလို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Sheikh Hasina ကေျပာ ေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး AK Abdul Momen က သတင္းေထာက္ ေတြကို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Bangladesh to verify Myanmar claim

theindepedent
1 November, 2019
Diplomatic Correspondent, Dhaka
In our estimate, not a single Rohingya has returned to Myanmar, says foreign minister AK Abdul Momen 

Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh will verify Myanmar’s claim that several hundred Rohingyas have voluntarily returned to Myanmar as that country has repeatedly been spreading misinformation. “In our estimate, not a single Rohingya has returned to Myanmar. But Myanmar claimed that several hundred Rohingyas had returned to their homeland. It is their account—we don’t know anything about it. They have not taken back the Rohingyas who are at their border,” he added. The minister said this in reply to a query by journalists in the capital.

Bangladesh foreign minister: 'We're balancing our ties with China and India'

DW
21.10.2019

In an exclusive interview with DW, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen spoke about the Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar as well as his country's ties with China and India. He says his country wants to maintain good relations with everyone.

Link :https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-foreign-minister-were-balancing-our-ties-with-china-and-india/av-50916393?fbclid=IwAR1BnNc7KiHNw4nt1qyILj9jeVs5da1R7ZJVpzAUNMQHblONzrUnxoZrN50

Dhaka seeks Berlin's support on Rohingya issue

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
October 19th, 2019

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen meets German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas in Berlin on Friday, October 18, 2019 UNB

He also asked for German car manufacturers to invest in Bangladesh and set up their assembly plants

Bangladesh has urged Germany to put pressure on Myanmar so that they can start taking their nationals back, noting that not a single Rohingya has been repatriated over the last two years.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ တတိယႏိုင္ငံမွာ အေျခခ်ေရး ဘဂၤ လား စိတ္၀င္စား

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

27 စက္တင္ဘာ၊
2019 ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို တတိယႏုိင္ငံမွာ အေျခခ်ေရး ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရက လမ္းဖြင့္ ထားေၾကာင္း နယူးေရာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံကို တက္ေရာက္လာတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံ ၿခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး Dr. AK Abdul Momen က သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ေခၚယူဖို႔ စိတ္ဝင္စားတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံရွိလာမယ္ဆိုရင္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္က ႀကိဳဆိုေၾကာင္း လည္း ေျပာပါတယ္။

Rohingya focus moves to summit

Bangkok Post
Thana Boonlert
2 Sep 2019 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Bangladesh says refugees from Rakhine need safety guarantees before they will return.

                              Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen is urging Thailand, as the current chair of Asean, to deepen the bloc's engagement in the creation of a conducive environment in Myanmar's Rakhine state, after the second attempt to repatriate Rohingya Muslims stalled last month.

Bangladesh bars 41 NGOs from undertaking any activity in Cox's Bazar Rohingya Camps

ALL INDIA RADIO
Aug 31, 2019

The Government of Bangladesh has barred 41 NGOs from undertaking any activity in Cox's Bazar Rohingya Camps for their alleged wrongdoings.

This was announced today by Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen in Sylhet. He said A total of 139 NGOs have been operating in the Rohingya camps since the refugee crisis began in August 2017.

Mount pressure on Myanmar Dhaka urges foreign diplomats

THE ASIAN AGE

30 August 2019
Golam Rosul  

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday held Myanmar responsible as efforts to begin repatriation of Rohingyas went in vain and sought more pressure on Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingyas.

"It's Myanmar's failure as it has failed to ensure security for the Rohingyas in Rakhine State. You (international community) have the responsibility. Our appeal to you is to be more aggressive…you will take more actions because it's not our problem only, it's a problem of all of us."

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေန ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဒါကာမွာ ရွင္းလင္း

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

29 ၾသဂုတ္၊ 2019

 

ၿမန္မာျပည္က ထြက္ေျပးရမႈ ၂ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ အခမ္းအနားကို ၾသဂုတ္လ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔က ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ေရာက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ က်င္းပခဲ႔ၾကပါတယ္။ 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး AK Abdul Momen ဟာ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔ ညေန ၄ နာရီမွာ ဒါကာ အ
ေၿခစိုက္ သံတမန္ေတြနဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ေအဂ်င္စီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံျပီး ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ေနာက္ ဆုံး အေျခအေနေတြကို ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားဖို႔ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ လုပ္မယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ တာ၀န္ရွိ သူတစ္ဦးက ေျပာျပတယ္။

Dhaka seeks strong global response to resolve Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
August 23rd, 2019

Rohingya people line up to be interviewed for the repatriation to Myanmar outside the office of the camp-in-charge in Shalbagan refugee camp, Cox's Bazar on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Myanmar must convince its nationals to return, says foreign minister

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that Bangladesh will take a tougher position over the Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

Dhaka seeks strong global response to resolve Rohingya crisis

dailySun
UNB
23rd August, 2019

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said Bangladesh will take a tougher position over Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

“We tried our best, we worked as per your suggestions but finally it (repatriation) didn’t happen. We’ll make our position stronger,” he said. The Foreign Minister was talking to reporters after a discussion titled “15 August and Its Impact on Bangladesh” at Bangabandhu Memorial Trust auditorium organised by Awami League’s international affairs sub-committee.

Myanmar must be ‘accommodative’ to convince Rohingyas to go back, says Bangladesh FM

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent
bdnews24.com

23 Aug 2019 

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called on Myanmar to be “accommodative” towards the demands of Rohingyas so that they get the confidence to return home.

“We are still hopeful,” he said on Friday, a day after a second failed attempt to start the repatriation of Rohingyas, two years after 700,000 Myanmar nationals fled ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Rakhine State and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar.

Japan offers to mediate Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published at  July 30th, 2019

Japanese Foreign Minister Tara Kono calls on his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen at the state guesthouse Meghna in Dhaka on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 PID

The Japanese foreign minister will leave for Yangon on Wednesday to talk to the Myanmar leadership over the Rohingya issue

Japan has proposed to play a role as mediator in Tokyo taking Bangladesh and Myanmar onboard to find a peaceful solution to Rohingya crisis ensuring their safe return to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

Bangladesh will consider the proposal as it is looking for the resumption of Rohingya repatriation.