Bangladesh has urged Myanmar to fully concentrate on implementation of its obligations and commitments necessary for a durable solution to the Rohingya problem, reports UNB.
"The government of Myanmar should seriously consider a comprehensive engagement of the international community in creating an environment conducive to their return as well as monitoring the repatriation and reintegration process in Myanmar," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here in a press statement on Sunday.
The statement said accusing Bangladesh of non-cooperation in the repatriation effort by a party who is fully responsible for the protracted crisis is baseless, ill-motivated and totally unacceptable.
The government of Bangladesh maintains its principled position of "not preventing anyone, regardless of one's ethnic and religious identity, who intends to return" to Myanmar anytime.
In view of Myanmar's repeated claim that they are prepared to receive the displaced people and the recent interactions of a high-level delegation from Myanmar with the representatives of Rohingyas at camps in Cox's Bazar on July 27-28, 2019 to convince the displaced people to return, Bangladesh agreed to facilitate the commencement of repatriation on August 22, said the ministry.
In line with its commitment to the principle of voluntary return, the government of Bangladesh handed the list of 3,450 individuals so far verified by Myanmar to UNHCR through the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Dhaka on August 8 to ascertain whether these people are ready to return voluntarily to northern Rakhine under the present circumstances.
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