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Bangladesh to brief UN Security Council on Rohingya crisis

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Published: 16:20, 27 September 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Bangladesh to brief UN Security Council on Rohingya crisis

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali

Staff Correspondent: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled to hold a meeting on Rohingya crisis on Thursday where Bangladesh will address on the basis of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s five-point proposals that she made at the UN General Assembly to solve the crisis.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said this while talking to journalists after a briefing at State Guesthouse Padma on Wednesday.

Mahmood Ali said Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative at the UN Masud Bin Momin will speak at the Security Council on Thursday when it convenes for an open debate following a request made by seven countries.

The meeting will be publicly briefed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the violence, which he has described as ethnic cleansing.

The minister today briefed nine diplomats of the Security Council member countries that have missions in Dhaka.

“Our expectation is that they (Security Council) take such steps so that Rohingyas can return to their country peacefully,” he told journalists after the briefing at State Guesthouse Padma.

“They are sympathetic to the problem,” he said, when asked about the position of the diplomats who were briefed today.

The diplomats of the UK, the US, France, China, Russia, Sweden, Egypt, Italy, and Japan attended the briefing.

So far, nearly 480,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh after the Myanmar military carried out a counter-offensive following attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgents on 30 police posts and an army base on August 25.

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