GCC foreign ministers to hold preparatory meeting ahead of leaders’ summit in Doha

ARAB NEWS
December 03, 2023 

Gulf ministers are set to gather on Sunday to hold a preparatory meeting in Qatar’s capital Doha ahead of the 44th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit. (AFP/File Photo)

 

• 158th ministerial meeting will be chaired by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman

RIYADH: Gulf ministers are set to gather on Sunday to hold a preparatory meeting in Qatar’s capital Doha ahead of the 44th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, the bloc said in a statement on Saturday.

Meeting today to repatriate Rohingyas by December

Prothum Alo------
Diplomatic Correspondent
Dhaka
Updated: 04 Sep 2023

The issue of starting repatriation in smaller scale by December under a trilateral initiative mediated by China will be discussed in the meeting.

• This is the first time a delegation from Bangladesh has gone for talks since the junta assumed power in Myanmar.

• Bangladesh will place stress on measures to be taken by Myanmar to restore the confidence of the Rohingyas.

• A list of more than 3,000 Rohingyas have been provided with the goal of starting pilot repatriation project.

Rohingya influx from Myanmar,Reuters

Following a gap of more than four years, Bangladesh is about to hold discussions in Myanmar on starting Rohingya repatriation. The director general-level meeting will be held today, Monday in the administrative capital of Myanmar, Naypyidaw.

PM Hasina: UNGA discussion will help continue international pressure for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune

BSS
October 4th, 2021

She hopes Bangladesh delegation's participation in the session would strengthen Dhaka's position in the multilateral forum

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international pressure on Myanmar would continue for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as the issue was widely discussed in the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

She said: "The issue of the Rohingya crisis and its permanent solution was discussed elaborately in the UNGA session which I believe will help to continue global pressure on Myanmar for bringing back their Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh."

5-Point consensus for stability

NEW STRAITS TIMES

Muthanna Saari - 

May 4, 2021

ASEAN leaders met to discuss the Myanmar crisis. - EPA pix

Lasting peace, security and stability have always been the core tenets of Asean from the outset. It is with great belief that the objectives can be attained through a non-interference principle and respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.

In the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Asean 2025 adopted in 2015, leaders of all Asean member states reiterated the ZOPFAN concept of Southeast Asia as a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality. The idea was agreed upon by the five founding member states of Asean, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, in November 1971.

MALAYSIA KENA KECAM FOR MEETING OFFICIALS IN MYANMAR. BUT WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Cil!sos

Badd
Posted on 13/04/2021

When it comes to foreign relations, Malaysia seems to be throwing itself into drama a lot recently. There’s that crapstorm when our Foreign Minister Hishamuddin Hussein allegedly referred to China as ‘big brother’ earlier this month, although he had later clarified that he was referring to China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi personally. While that whole drama was going on, another sorta faux pas had happened right after that, and it kind of flew under the radar.

ASEAN leaders to meet over Myanmar, chair Brunei says

REUTERS
Reuters Staff

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Brunei, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, on Monday threw its support behind a regional leaders’ meeting to discuss developments in Myanmar and said it has asked officials to prepare for a meeting in Jakarta.

FILE PHOTO: Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah attends the opening session of the 31st ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines, November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Myanmar has been in crisis since a Feb. 1 military coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Activists say at least 557 people have since been killed in a crackdown by security forces on protests and strikes across the country, where the junta has restricted internet access.

Indonesia has led efforts by members of ASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member, to encourage a negotiated solution, despite a longstanding policy of not commenting on each other’s domestic problems.

Next Myanmar-Bangladesh-China Meeting on Rohingya Repatriation Set For Jan. 19

Radio Free Asia

2021-01-13

Rohingya refugees aboard a Bangladesh navy ship are relocated to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, Dec. 29, 2020.AFP

 

A secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar, mediated by China, will be held on Jan. 19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees, the Bangladeshi foreign minister said Wednesday.

Myanmar has not cooperated in ironing out issues to do with the return of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, but Bangladesh is hopeful some headway will made at the upcoming meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs A.K. Abdul Momen told journalists.

“We hope it will be a fruitful meeting,” Momen said.

He said that China had initially set the date for Jan. 9-10, but postponed it due to Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Myanmar on Monday and Tuesday.

ေဒသတခုလံုးပါ ထိခိုက္လာတဲ့ ရခိုင္ပဋိပကၡအေရး အာဆီ ယံ နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ အတိုင္ပင္ခံ ကတိေပး

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

27 ဇြန္၊ 2020 

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အတိုင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ (ဓါတ္ပံု-Myanmar State Counsellor Office)

အင္အားႀကီး ႏိုင္ငံေတြအၾကား တင္းမာမႈေတြ ျမင့္တက္ေနခ်ိန္နဲ႔ ေဒသတြင္း ျပႆနာေတြ မေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ 

ေသး တဲ့ အခုလို အခ်ိန္မွာ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႕(အာဆီယံ)ရဲ႕ စည္းလုံးညီၫြတ္မႈနဲ႔ ေဒသတြင္း အခန္းက႑က ပိုၿပီး အေရးႀကီးလာတယ္လို႔ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အတိုင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မေန႔ ဇြန္လ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးမွာ ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

Turkey to raise Rohingya issue at next UNSC meet

Bangladesh Post
By Staff Correspondent
May.09, 2020

Dr Momen ,Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has promised to raise the Rohingya issue at the next UN Security Council meeting.
He made the promise while talking to Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on phone on Saturday.

The Turkish foreign minister said his country would continue all kinds of cooperation for the safe return of the Rohingya refugees residing in Bangladesh to Myanmar.

OIC Ministerial Committee for Accountability for Human Rights Violations against Rohingya Holds Meeting on Sidelines of Makkah Summit

SPA

Saudi Press Agency

30 May 2019

Jeddah, May 30, 2019, SPA -- The Ministerial Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Accountability for Human Rights Violations against the Rohingya Minority in Myanmar held here today its second meeting this year, on the sidelines of the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the OIC Member States preparatory for the 14th Islamic Summit Conference.

World Islamic Group Votes to Take Myanmar Rohingya Abuses to International Court of Justice

RFA
2019-03-05

Foreign ministers and diplomats from the Organization of Islamic Conference attend a meeting Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 6, 2018.AFP

The world’s top Islamic intergovernmental body has unanimously adopted a resolution to pursue legal recourse through the International Court of Justice to seek accountability and justice for large-scale human rights violations committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, a statement issued by Bangladesh’s foreign ministry said.

Crisis in Rakhine State, Violence Could Derail Gains in Myanmar’s Peace Process, Special Envoy Warns Security Council, Calling for Unimpeded Humanitarian Access

SC/13727
28 February 2019

• Security Council

8477th Meeting (PM)

Fragility, tensions and violence in Myanmar — including, but not limited to, the recent crisis in Rakhine State — risk jeopardizing important strides made in that country’s peace process, the top United Nations official in Myanmar warned the Security Council today, urging the 15-member organ to continue to lend support.