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The government has sought international help including that from the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in trouble-torn Yemen.
It also formed an inter-ministerial committee to proceed on with the evacuating process of Bangladeshis from there, sources said.
Foreign ministry sources said the committee was formed at a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday evening.
The meeting attended by representatives from ministries of home, expatriates and welfare, and prime minister's office decided to open helpline under the Bangladesh mission in Kuwait and involved all other missions close to Yemen to bring back the stranded Bangladeshis.
The meeting was informed that the Bangladeshis were mostly remaining in Sana and Aden where the situation was comparatively safer. But the missions close to Yemen were asked to coordinate each other to speed up the process of repatriation.
Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque meanwhile at a press conference on Wednesday said the government had sought cooperation from all concerned including India to help repatriate the Bangladeshis from Yemen.
"From the government side, communication has been made with the Indian side to seek its cooperation as it is to send a ship there," he told the journalists adding that the IOM had also been requested to repatriate Bangladesh nationals trapped in the war-torn country.
Answering a question about the total number of Bangladeshis remaining stranded in Yemen, the foreign secretary said they had got misleading statistics about the total number but assumed that it would be between 1500 and 3000.
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Dhaka seeks int\\\'l help to bring back nationals from Yemen
FE Team | Published: April 02, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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