Dipu Moni seeks global support to settle Rohingya issue

Dhaka has renewed its call at the United Nations seeking support and involvement of the international community in Bangladesh’s bilateral steps for solving  Rohingya crisis.

‘Bangladesh will continue its diplomatic efforts with Myanamr to solve the issue; but it will not possible to reach a desired solution to the problem without support and involvement of international community and the UN,” said Dr Moni.

Dipu Moni, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, came up with the call while addressing as panelist at a side event titled ‘Atrocities against Rohingya: From Condemnation to Action’ at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

Reiterating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s five-point action plan that earlier placed at UN General Assembly last month, Dr Dipu Moni, in her speech, put emphasis on two-point measure to settle the crisis.  

The measures include - provide humanitarian assistance to displaced Rohingyas and measures for a peaceful, sustainable and lawful political solution of the problem, she elaborated.

Under secretary general Adama Dieng, special adviser on genocide to UN secretary general, said the persecution occurred in Myanmar may recognise as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to a press release UNB received from New York on Wednesday.

Terming all steps taken by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) so far, including ‘Arria-formula meetings’, as preliminary steps, Adama Dieng urged UNSC to take more specific and effective measures to settle the issue.

Denouncing the inhumane incident in Myanmar, Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev, OIC permanent observatory to UN expressed OIC’s firm commitment to work with UN and global community for permanent and lawful solution of the Rohingya crisis.

Ambassador Michele J Sison, US Representative to the United Nations, said the US government is thinking to put sanction on military training and technical assistance for Myanmar. 

Representatives from United Kingdom, European Union, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Human Rights Watch, Burma Taskforce, also addressed the event.
 
Source: unb