Dhaka hopeful of tripartite talks soon over Rohingya repatriation

theindepedent

UNB/ Dhaka
9 November, 2020

Dhaka welcomes new Myanmar govt, says FM as NLD claims win

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Monday expressed optimism over the resumption of talks on Rohingya repatriation using a tripartite mechanism after the formation of a new government in Myanmar.

"We want to remain positive," Dr Momen told reporters indicating that the tripartite talks will begin soon.

Bangladesh, Myanmar and China are planning to hold Foreign Minister-level tripartite talks, likely in Beijing, to begin the repatriation of Rohingyas without any delay.

China concerned at delay in repatriation of Rohingyas

UNB 

UNB News
Dhaka
October 11, 2020

Killers of Chinese national to be brought to justice, says FM 

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Sunday expressed concern as the repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State has not started yet.

He shared his concern during his meeting with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday in the city.

Dr Momen sought Chinese government's support for the quick and sustainable return of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

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.

France will continue to support for Rohingya repatriation

theindepedent
9 March, 2020 

Independent Online\ BSS

Visiting French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly today put emphasis on mounting more international pressure on Myanmar to take back its Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh.

In a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister’s Office here this morning, the French minister also said her country will continue to support to Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue.

Myanmar team visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

Prothum Alo 

Prothom Alo English Desk
Update: 22:16, Dec 19, 2019

Rohingya refugee camp in Cox`s Bazar. File Photo

A nine-member Myanmar delegation visited Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday and interacted with Rohingyas in an effort to convince them to return to their homes in Rakhine state, reports UNB. 

They will talk to Rohingyas at the camp on Thursday before they leave Cox's Bazar for Dhaka in the afternoon, an official told UNB.

‘Difficult to say when situation to be conducive for Rohingya repatriation’

The Daily Star
November 29, 2019
Star Online Report

UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements says it is difficult to say exactly when the environment will be conducive for Rohingya repatriation. Photo: Porimol Palma

 UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements today said it is difficult to say exactly when the environment will be conducive for Rohingya repatriation.

Kelly T. Clements said this while addressing a press conference at a hotel in Dhaka on the outcome of her recent visit in Cox’s Bazar.

“It is extremely difficult to say exactly when the environment will be conducive for Rohingya repatriation,” the UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner said responding to a query.

US senators mull more pressure on Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation

The Daily Star
BSS, Dhaka
October 27, 2019

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

After visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar that hosted over 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, New York State Senators are planning to ask their federal colleagues to put more efforts in ensuring sustainable repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh. 

“Hopefully, we will talk to our federal representatives to engage more in efforts to put pressure on Myanmar so Rohingya people can return (to Myanmar),” New York State Senator Luis Sepulveda told BSS after concluding a one-week visit here.

Bangladesh finds Myanmar’s claim regarding 29 Rohingya repatriation as propaganda

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
October 22nd, 2019

File photo: 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

'We do not have any information on this. If a refugee wanted to be repatriated, they will have to follow the process maintained by RRRC, and UNHCR'

The claim by the Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, on the repatriation of 29 Rohingyas from Bangladesh, is nothing but propaganda, said a top official involved in managing Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Urges Swift Repatriation of Rohingya

Radio Free Asia
2019-10-21

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in Tokyo, Oct. 21, 2019.
Myanmar State Counselor's Office 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to quickly facilitate the repatriation of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to their former homes in Rakhine state, also urging the de facto national leader to guarantee safe conditions for their return.

Myanmar must guarantee rights of Rohingyas

The Daily Star
October 20, 2019
Unb, Dhaka

Dhaka tells UN on repatriation

Myanmar must guarantee the rights of Rohingyas and take confidence building measures to create a conducive environment for their return to their place of origin in Rakhine State, Bangladesh has conveyed to the United Nations.

“For the repatriation to happen, Myanmar has to guarantee the rights of Rohingyas and take confidence building measures for their return,” said lawmaker Abdul Majid Khan, a member of the parliamentary standing committee on ministry of foreign affairs.

Bangladesh gives Myanmar new list of Rohingya refugees

AA

SM Najmus Sakib 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

15.10.2019

Dhaka provides total 105,000 Rohingya names to Myanmar over three phases to expedite repatriation process 

 

Bangladesh on Tuesday sent Myanmar a fresh list of some 50,000 Rohingya refugees currently taking shelter in the country's Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.

With the new list, Dhaka has provided the names of some 105,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar over three phases, in order to expedite their repatriation process to Myanmar.

Raise voice for Rohingya repatriation: Finance Minister to ADB

UNB

October 13, 2019

Photo: Rafikul Islam/UNB

 

 

 Dhaka, Oct 13 (UNB) - Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday requested the representatives of Asian Development Bank (ADB) to raise their voices for the quick repatriation of Rohingyas.

Bangladesh-Myanmar: Failed Repatriation – Analysis

eurasiareview
October 8, 2019
By S. Binodkumar Singh*

 

Rohingya's in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Photo taken by John Owens/VOA, Wikipedia Commons. 

Following two failed attempts to repatriate the Rohingyas, Bangladesh officials stated, on October 3, 2019, that Bangladesh would not make a third, to begin the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas sheltered in the Cox’s Bazar District, along the Bangladesh-Myanmar International Border. An unnamed Foreign Ministry official stated, “We are not going to make any attempt before being sure that the repatriation will actually happen. Even if the repatriation starts in a small scale, that will be a good thing.”

PM seeks Singapore's cooperation for quick Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
October 5th, 2019

Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi on Friday, October 4, 2109 Focus Bangla

The premier reminded Heng Swee Keat that they put up the Rohingya issue before the world while her country was chair of the Asean

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from Singapore for speedy repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas.

Myanmar Rejects Rohingya Refugee Visit to Rakhine State to Inspect Conditions For Repatriation

Radio Free Asia
2019-10-03

Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organized to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Aug. 25, 2019.
AFP

Myanmar has rejected an offer by China to facilitate a visit by a group of Rohingya refugees to its Rakhine state to investigate the situation there ahead of a possible repatriation from temporary camps across the border in Bangladesh, a senior Myanmar foreign ministry official confirmed Thursday.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters on Wednesday that Myanmar’s government had dismissed the proposal, originally floated by Li Jiming, the new Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, during talks with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar last month and formally discussed during a meeting last week between Myanmar, Chinese and Bangladeshi delegates on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Rohingya repatriation: No third attempt without confirming success

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
October 3rd, 2019

Rohingya men and women migrating to different camps in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

According to a bilateral instrument signed by Bangladesh, and Myanmar on November 23, 2017, the repatriation was supposed to begin within January 22, 2018, and to be complete by January 22, 2020. But, not a single Rohingya is yet to be repatriated

US Offers New Aid Package for Rohingya; Bangladeshi, Malaysian PMs Push for Repatriation

Radio Free Asia
2019-09-25

Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organizations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sept.14, 2017. Reuters 

The United States has announced more than $127 million in new humanitarian aid for Rohingya refugees, while the leaders of Bangladesh and Malaysia called on Myanmar to create conditions for repatriating the stateless people.

More than 740,000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh amid a brutal counter-offensive launched by the military in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents on border police and army posts in August 2017.

Tripartite repatriation talks scheduled at UN

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

23 Sep 2019

Myanmar, Bangladesh and China will meet to discuss the repatriation of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry said the meeting will focus on resolving issues that hamper the repatriation of the more than 700,000 Muslim refugees who have fled from northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh since August 2017.  

Arsa: Myanmar’s new propaganda front to delay Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
September 17th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017 Reuters

Myanmar claims Arsa is stopping Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar from returning home; Bangladesh says Arsa doesn’t exist in Rohingya refugee camps

The Myanmar government has adopted a new propaganda front in regard to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) to further delay the repatriation of the Rohingyas currently sheltered in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, multiple sources have told Dhaka Tribune.

China still willing to mediate Rohingya repatriation after second failed attempt

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
29 Aug 2019

China is still offering mediation after two failed attempts to help Myanmar and Bangladesh start the process to repatriate Rohingya refugees.
Newly-appointed Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Thursday said China would play “more constructive role” in resolving the crisis.

He made the remarks to journalists after his maiden meeting with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at his office.