Bangladesh: Momen welcomes resuming Rohingya repatriation talk with Myanmar

DHAKA, 16 June 2022, (TON): Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen welcomed the resumption of Joint Working Group talk between Bangladesh and Rohingyas regarding repatriation of the forcibly displaced people from Bangladesh to their homeland in Rakine state of Myanmar.

He told reporters "it's good news that Myanmar has started the discussion.”

Bangladesh and Myanmar held the fifth meeting of the JWG virtually on the repatriation of displaced people of Rakhine State of Myanmar temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh.

Dr Momen said “Dhaka stressed on expediting the verification process of the Rohingyas to begin their repatriation to their place of origin in Rakhine State of Myanmar.”

He said “the Bangladesh side so far handed over a list of 830,000 individuals containing biometric data but they have only verified 58,000.”

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