Rohingya: Tripartite moot raises hopes, skepticism

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SM Najmus Saki 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

16.01.2021 

Bangladesh hosting tripartite meeting on Rohingya repatriation bringing China, Myanmar to table on Jan. 19 

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen

Bangladesh is going to host an important tripartite meeting on the Rohingya repatriation issue, which has been frozen for a year, bringing China and Myanmar to the table on Jan. 19.

The last tripartite meeting was held on Jan. 20 last year in New York, and since then Myanmar has been allegedly postponing the bilateral talks despite repeated attempts by Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said it will be a secretary-level tripartite meeting and hopefully it will be productive. However, he averred that “repatriation is the only solution to end the Rohingya crisis, and there will be no alternative.”

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.