Myanmar will have to play key role in resolving Rohingya issue taking back its nationals from Bangladesh.
"To that end, the international community must continue mounting pressure on Myanmar (to make their return sustainable)," he said, reports UNB.
The Foreign Minister was addressing a discussion on Rohingya crisis at BIISS (Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies) in Dhaka on Tuesday.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque also spoke.
Minister Ali said Bangladesh government is working to peacefully resolve the crisis.
Earlier, Bangladesh has differed with Myanmar over return of Myanmar nationals to their homeland from Bangladesh on the basis of 1992 Joint Statement saying the situation of 1992 and current situation is “entirely different”.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali conveyed it to diplomats stationed in Dhaka while briefing them at state guesthouse Padma on Monday afternoon.
He referred to the recent visit of Myanmar’s Union Minister at the Office of the State Counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe to Dhaka on October 2 at his invitation.
The Foreign Minister informed that during the meeting the Union Minister has expressed Myanmar’s willingness to take back the “displaced residents” of Myanmar and proposed to follow the principle and criteria agreed upon in the 1992 Joint Statement.
