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Bangladesh: China to help Bangladesh repatriate Rohingya refugees
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DHAKA, 09 August 2022, (TON): China pledged on Sunday to support Bangladesh in repatriating thousands of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen discussed the issue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Dhaka.
More than a million Rohingya Muslim refugees live in camps in Bangladesh, having fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, mostly in 2017.
'Bangladesh needs support from China'
Momen said “Beijing has already constructed about 3,000 houses in Myanmar's Rakhine state, for prospective Rohingya returnees.”
He added “China will also arrange initial food support for the repatriated refugees.”
The foreign minister said "we must thank China that they agreed to do that.”
Analyst Munshi Faiz Ahmad, who served as Bangladeshi ambassador in Beijing, told the Associated Press that to "resolve the Rohingya crisis Bangladesh needs support from China."
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