Will Myanmar Take Back Rohingya Refugees or is This The Start of a Long Process? Published January 20th, 2021 - 12:17 GMT
Myanmar s minority rohingya people wait in a queue to receive tram at Balukhali rohingya camp, Ukhiya in Coz s Bazar Bangladesh on September 25, 2017. (Shutterstock/ File Photo)
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Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation.
Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday.
Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed it, seeking time for logistical arrangements.
Myanmar Agrees To Start Taking Back Rohingya This Year
Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation. Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday.
Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed it, seeking time for logistical arrangements. We pushed to initiate the repatriation in the first quarter, but Myanmar sought more time for logistical arrangements and some physical arrangements. So we asked to start repatriation in the second quarter, and they agreed on it, Bangladesh s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said after the meeting.