Hasina slams US congressman’s proposal to attach Rakhine state with Bangladesh

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent
09 Jul 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has denounced the proposal by a US congressman to bring the Rakhine State in Myanmar under Bangladesh's territory, calling it an attempt 'to start a fire in the region'.

She made the remarks at a media briefing in Ganabhaban on Monday following her five-day official visit to China.

Over 1.1 million Rohingya people have taken refuge in Bangladesh to escape persecution in the Rakhine State. The refugees have since voiced concerns over their safety as plans for their repatriation are mooted.

PM to brief media on China visit Monday

Dhaka Tribune  

Tribune Desk
Published at 01:20 pm July 6th, 2019 

File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Focus Bangla

Sheikh Hasina visited China for a five-day bilateral official visit

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference on Monday to brief journalists about the outcomes of her just-concluded visit to China.

The press conference will be held at the premier's official residence Ganabhaban at 4pm, Secretary Md Nazrul Islam from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Saturday.

Energy, business ties with Dhaka boosted

CHINADAILY
By CAO DESHENG ,China Daily
Updated: 2019-07-05 10:02

Premier Li Keqiang holds talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is paying an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 4, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]  

Premier meets with Bangladeshi prime minister to enhance bilateral relations
China and Bangladesh signed a number of agreements on Thursday focusing mainly on power generation and economic cooperation as part of efforts to boost bilateral ties.

Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina witnessed the signing of the agreements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Chinese leadership assures Hasina of prompt resolution of Rohingya crisis

Financial Express

Kamal Uddin Ahmed
Published: July 06, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a five-day official visit to China from July 02-06 during which she attended the Summer Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Dalian.

During the visit, PM Hasina met with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang and discussed a range of issues for boosting bilateral cooperation. The protracted Rohingya crisis was highlighted in the meetings. Hasina sought a stronger role from Beijing for a safe, voluntary and speedy repatriation of over 750,000 Rohingya refugees forcibly pushed into Bangladesh since August 2017.

Dhaka and Beijing have agreed on "prompt" resolution to the Rohingya crisis during Prime Minister Hasina's meeting with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.

Xi, Hasina ‘agree’ Rohingyas must return to Myanmar for quick end to crisis

bdnews24.com 
Reazul Bashar from Beijing,
Published: 06 Jul 2019

 Photo: Yasin Kabir Joy 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has “agreed” with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that Myanmar must take back the Rohingyas to end the refugee crisis swiftly, the foreign secretary has said.

“The two leaders agreed that this crisis can’t be left unaddressed and must be resolved fast,” Shahidul Haque told the media after the two leaders met in Beijing on Friday.

“A deal (on Rohingya repatriation) was signed two years ago and there is no disagreement on how the crisis will be resolved. They (Rohingyas) must return to their country,” he added.

PM returns home from China

The Daily Star
July 07, 2019
Unb, Dhaka

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui bid farewell to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Beijing Capital International Airport yesterday. Hasina returned home wrapping up her five-day trip. Photo: PID 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home yesterday concluding her five-day official visit to China.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the PM and her entourage touched down at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 1:40pm.

During her visit, Hasina attended the annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Dalian on July 2. She held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday and Saturday.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္းမယ္လို႔ တရုတ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေျပာ

RFA 
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
2019-07-05

တရုတ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Li Keqiang နဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Sheikh Hasina တို႔ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ ေဘဂ်င္းၿမိဳ႕မွာ ၂၀၁၉ ဇူလိုင္ ၄ ရက္ေန႔ကေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ Photo: Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP 

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ လံုျခံဳမႈရွိတဲ့ အေျခအေနတစ္ခု ဖန္တီးေပးဖို႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္းသြားမယ္လို႔ တရုတ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Li Keqiang က တ႐ုပ္ႏိုင္ငံမွာေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔အဖြဲ႔ကို ကတိေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။

Dhaka, Beijing sign nine instruments

dailyobserver
Thursday, 4 July, 2019 
Observer Online Desk

Bangladesh and China on Thursday signed nine instruments for further strengthening cooperation on power, water resources, culture and tourism sectors as well as providing 2,500 metric tonnes of rice for the displaced Rohingyas.

The instruments, including two loan deals, were signed in presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang after a bilateral meeting between the two leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the capital of China.

Bangladesh PM leaves for China on official visit

CHINADAILY
Xinhua
2019-07-02 

Sheikh Hasina signs the official oath book after taking oath as the Prime Minister for the third consecutive time in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]  

DHAKA -- Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday left for an official visit to China and will attend the 13th Summer Davos Forum in northeast China's Dalian before that.

A special flight of national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for Dalian on Monday, carrying the premier and her entourage members including several ministers.

Bangladesh leader Hasina touches down in China amid Rohingya crisis with Myanmar

bdnews24.com
Reazul Bashar from China, bdnews24.com
Published: 02 Jul 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in China on a five-day official visit -- her first to the Asian superpower after forming government for a third straight term.

A VVIP flight of Bangladesh Biman Airlines took off with the prime minister and her delegation from the Shahjalal International Airport at 5pm on Monday. The plane landed in Dalian’s Zhoushuizi International Airport at 12:10am local time (10:10pm Bangladesh standard time).

Hasina to China: Push Myanmar to accept Rohingya

ASIATIMES  

By Arshad Mahmud, Dhaka

Boys walk in front of a panoramic view of Rohingya settlements on May 27 in Kutupalong refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: AFP / Diego Cupolo / NurPhoto

PM will warn that leaving refugees in Bangladesh camps makes them easy targets for Islamist radical recruiters 

Amid growing concern over the prolonged, indefinite stay of over a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi makeshift camps, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is flying to China Monday for a five-day official visit.

Her visit is expected to focus primarily on enlisting Beijing’s support in resolving the festering crisis by using its influence to persuade Myanmar to take its nationals back.

PM’s China Visit: Dhaka wants stronger role of Beijing on Rohingya

The Daily Star
 June 29, 2019

Dhaka is expecting Beijing, a close ally of Myanmar, to play a more effective role in addressing the Rohingya crisis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits China from July 1-5.

“We hope Rohingya issue will get prominence during her visit. We have high hopes to see progress in this regard,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said at a press briefing at his ministry yesterday.

PM to highlight Rohingya crisis during China visit

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published at  June 28th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019 Reuters

Dhaka, Beijing is expected to adopt a joint statement
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said, Rohingya crisis will top the agenda of discussions during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to China from July 2 to 6.

“The Rohingya issue will come up as a major topic during the prime minister’s visit … we do believe, after that, Beijing will take a ‘proactive role’ in resolving the crisis [Rohingya repatriation],” he said at a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry yesterday.

Rohingyas may be threat for security if not repatriated soon: PM

The Daily Star

June 26, 2019

 File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told parliament that the security and stability of Bangladesh may be hampered if the displaced Rohingyas cannot be repatriated soon.
In reply to a question from Awami League MP Nur Mohammad from Kishoreganj-2, the premier said, “If we can’t send the displaced Rohingyas back soon, there is an apprehension that our security and stability will be hampered.”

Rohingya return top priority in PM’s China visit

NEWAGE
Diplomatic Correspondent 
Published: , Jun 24,2019

Repatriation of Rohingyas would be the top priority issue during prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to China in the first week of July, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said on Sunday.

‘Beginning repatriation of Rohingya people [to Myanmar] would be a top priority,’ he told journalists at his office, adding, ‘we’ll continue to say they should go.’

The minister said that China would support the signing arrangements with Myanmar to begin the repatriation process.

Dhaka to share concerns about Rohingya issue with Beijing

Dhaka Tribune
June 23rd, 2019
Tribune Desk 

Rohingyas crossing over to Bangladesh after Rohingya insurgent attacks on Myanmar security forces in August 2017 triggered a sweeping military crackdown Mahmud Hossain Opu /Dhaka Tribune

Prolonged stay of Rohingyas might cause radicalism, uncertainty

Bangladesh will convey to China during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit scheduled for July 1-5, its fear of "radicalism and uncertainty" on the security front in the region, due to the prolonged stay of Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh PM Slams Myanmar Over Rohingya Deadlock

The Globe Post
by Staff Writer
June 10, 2019

 More than 655,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state have sought refuge in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in late August. Photo: AFP

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed Myanmar for delays in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees who fled violence in the neighboring country.

Some 740,000 Rohingya took shelter in fetid, overcrowded camps in Bangladesh after Myanmar’s military drove them over the border in a brutal 2017 crackdown.

Many still fear for their safety if they return to Myanmar, where the Muslim minority has faced decades of repression and erosion of rights.

But the Bangladeshi prime minister’s comments late Sunday are a sign that the country’s patience is wearing thin.

Bangladesh PM attacks Myanmar over Rohingya deadlock

FRANCH 24 

Date created : 10/06/2019

Dhaka (AFP)

Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution Myanmar have taken shelter in squalid camps over the border in Bangladesh AFP

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed Myanmar for delays in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees who fled violence in the neighbouring country.

Some 740,000 Rohingya took shelter in fetid, overcrowded camps in Bangladesh after Myanmar's military drove them over the border in a 2017 crackdown.

Myanmar Doesn’t Want to Repatriate Rohingya, Bangladeshi PM Says

The Irrawaddy
By Muktadir Rashid  
10 June 2019

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during an interview at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York on Sept. 25, 2018. / Reuters

DHAKA—Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday that Myanmar does not want the more than 1 million Rohingya refugees currently sheltering in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district to be repatriated.

“Myanmar in no way wants them [Rohingya] back. This is the problem. We are trying to do our part,” the prime minister told a press conference at her official residence, Gonobhaban, in Dhaka when asked about possible solutions to the Rohingya crisis.

Voluntary organisations don’t want Rohingya repatriation: PM

Prothum Alo------ 

Staff Correspondent 

Dhaka | Update:  Jun 09, 2019

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said international volunteer organisations do not want Rohingyas to return to Myanmar.

“We took steps for their repatriation. However, a section of Rohingyas launched a movement against their return. Who instigated them? In fact international volunteers do not want the repatriation,” the prime minister told a press conference at her official residence Ganabhaban on Sunday.