Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said Bangladesh will not fall into the trap of any quarter engaging in conflict with Myanmar as the country is committed to resolving the Rohingya crisis through negotiation.
Asked about the conflict between the Arakan Army insurgents and the Myanmar forces along the Bangladesh border the minister said that this conflict is their internal affair.
Responding to a question, he said that China has been working sincerely to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
“Though we are yet to get the expected outcome, what we can say is that they have been engaged to resolve the issue very actively” he added.
Talking to the journalists at his office, the foreign minister also observed that the United Nations has become so weak that they are now not capable to stop war.
The foreign minister who reached home on Monday night after attending the sessions of the UN General assembly in New York, mentioned that the Rohingya issue was highlighted in different events along the sidelines of the UN sessions.
Senior representatives as well as foreign ministers from different countries attended those events and pledged their support to resolve the Rohingya crisis, he said.
Responding to the question the minister said that they had raised the issue of sanction on RAB in Washington.
“We raised the issue and we will continue to do so. We will follow all the processes needed to resolve this issue”, the Minister added.
The minister informed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to visit Japan in the last week of November at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart.
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