The United States and the United Nations today insisted on safe and voluntary return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar.<br/><br/>Over 655,000 people of Myanmar's Muslim minority fled across the border to Bangladesh since the army launched a crackdown on Rohingya rebels in northern Rakhine state in August last year.<br/><br/>State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at a news conference in Washington, the timeline is less important than the ability for people to safely and voluntarily go home when it is safe to do so. <br/><br/>Myanmar and Bangladesh have reached a deal on the return of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas that sidelined the UN refugee agency.<br/><br/>According to the agreement, which was finalised in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw this week, a two-year deadline has been set for the repatriation of the Rohingyas. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also insisted on safe and voluntary return of Rohingya refugees.