Myanmar delegation in Dhaka to talk
A three-member Myanmar delegation from the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State arrived in Dhaka yesterday to discuss the Rohingya issue with Bangladesh authorities.
The members of the delegation are Win Mra, chair of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission; Aye Lwin, core member and founder of Religious for Peace Myanmar; and Ghassan Salame, former Lebanese minister of culture and also special advisor to the UN secretary-general, said foreign ministry sources.
The delegation is expected to hold talks with the Bangladesh foreign minister and high officials of the government and international organisations during their four-day stay.
The Myanmar government established the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, also known as Rakhine Commission, to discover lasting solutions to complex and delicate issues in the Rakhine state.
The delegation is expected to visit two Rohingya shelters in Cox's Bazar today to see the situation of 65,000 Rohingya refugees who entered Bangladesh recently and joined thousands of others who had done the same years ago.
The Rohingyas from Myanmar took shelter in these shelters to escape a "counter-insurgency operation" in the country by its military.
Apart from talking to the Rohingya refugees in the shelters, the three-member team will hold talks with the local administration and representatives of different international organisations in Cox's Bazar to discuss enduring solutions to the longstanding issues in Rakhine state of Myanmar, sources said.
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