UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee chief praises Sheikh Hasina on Rohingya issue

daily sun
Sun Online Desk
1st September, 2023 

Alicia Kearns, the first woman chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament, praised Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for providing shelter to millions of Rohingya refugees who were persecuted in Myanmar.

She also emphasised on increasing international pressure to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar. 

Keep up the pressure

Dhaka Trubune
Tribune Editorial
Publish : 03 Sep 2023

That the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair has lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for giving shelter to forcibly displaced Rohingya population of Myanmar is an appreciable enough gesture, but the fact that she stressed on the importance of international pressure on Myanmar to commence repatriation efforts is what the world needs to take away from this.

ၿဗိတိန္နိုင္ငံရဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္အေပၚေလ့လာ စုံစမ္း

Radio Free Asia ( RFA )

ရဲေခါင္ျမင့္ေမာင္(ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ)
2021-05-25

ၿဗိတိန္ပါလီမန္ရဲ့ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာ ေကာ္မတီဟာ ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေလ့လာစုံစမ္းဖို႔ အစည္းအေဝး တစ္ရပ္ကို မေန႔က က်င္းပခဲ့ရာမွာ NUG အစိုးရရဲ့ နိုင္ငံတကာပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာဆာ ဆာက NUG အစိုးရရဲ့ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ေတြကို တင္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အလားတူ တက္ေရာက္လာတဲ့ တိုင္းရင္း သား နဲ႔ အရပ္ဘက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကေတာ့ ၿဗိတိန္အစိုးရဟာ ျမန္မာ့အေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္ရာမွာ တိုင္းရင္း သားလူနည္းစုေတြရဲ့အသံကို နားေထာင္ၿပီး လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈ အားနည္းေနေသးတယ္လို႔ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Rohingya Donor Conference and Funding

House of Commons Hansard

22 October 2020

Volume 682

 

The Minister for Asia (Nigel Adams)

My hon. Friend the Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) has made the following written statement:

The UK is co-hosting a donor conference today for the Rohingya refugee response, alongside the United States, European Union and UN refugee agency (UNHCR).

Bringing together donor countries and partners from the region, this conference will rally international support for the Rohingya humanitarian response in Bangladesh, Myanmar and other countries hosting Rohingya refugees in the region. Our aim is to ensure sustained support for Rohingya refugees and displaced populations, while working towards long-term durable solutions.