Bangladesh’s diplomatic efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis are on right track as now the entire world echoes with Dhaka that repatriation is the only solution of it, said foreign minister Dr A K Abdul Momen on Tuesday.
“We’re making all sorts of strides what we could do in diplomacy … we want to solve the crisis though dialogues not involving in warfare (with Myanmar),” he told BSS while commenting on three-year-mark of the largest exodus of the Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
Momen said Dhaka has been engaged in bilateral, trilateral, multilateral as well as accountability and justice pathways to see light of the Rohingya crisis.
“We’re doing good, as we have earned total global support regarding safe return of Rohingyas,” he said.
The foreign minister, however, said the Rohingya repatriation process has been slowed down due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.
“Apart from the pandemic, Myanmar is getting busy for its upcoming national election in November,” he said.
Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar district and most of them arrived there after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and other rights groups dubbed as “genocide”.
