Bangladesh on Sunday urged the international community that it will shift another 80 thousand Rohingyas to Bhasanchar within the shortest possible time.
It also urged the international development partners and organisations including the UNHCR to be more active in ensuring all inhabitable arrangements and fundamental rights for the Rohingya people who were forcibly displaced from Myanmar.
Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus made the call at a meeting with ambassadors, high commissioners and heads of delegations of various international organisations held at the Prime Minister’s Office, said a spokesperson of the PMO.
Dr Ahmad Kaikaus presided over the meeting that was convened to discuss the issue of Rohingya issue.
The meeting was informed that the government has taken initiative to shift another eighty thousand Rohingya people to Bhashanchar who are currently staying at various camps in Cox’s Bazar.
In this regard, the meeting was also informed that more than 18,000 Rohingyas have already been taken to Bhashanchar, and the process is on to shift the remaining Rohingyas.
At the meeting, the Principal Secretary said, the government is doing everything possible to ensure all basic needs of the Rohingyas including better liveable places for them
Ambassadors and high commissioners of various countries including the USA, UK, Japan, Australia, France, Canada and Netherlands as well as heads of delegations of international organisations like the European Union and UNHCR joined the meeting.
PMO Secretary Tofazzal Hossain Miah and the secretaries concerned were also present in the meeting.
