November 21, 2017 1:31 PM

printer

Myanmar hopes for deal with Bangladesh on Rohingya refugees: Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi today said, she hopes that talks with Bangladesh this week will result in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the safe and voluntary return of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh in the past three months. <br/><br/>Speaking to media at the end of a meeting of senior officials at an Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw, she said discussions would be held with the Bangladesh foreign minister tomorrow and day after. <br/><br/>Suu Kyi said she hope that talks would result in an MOU signed quickly, which would enable to start the safe and voluntarily return of all of those who have gone across the border. <br/><br/>She said Myanmar would follow the framework of an agreement reached in the 1990s to cover the earlier repatriation of Rohingya, who had fled to Bangladesh to escape previous bouts of ethnic violence.

Most Read
View All arrow-right

No posts found.