Trump lauds Bangladesh for hosting Rohingyas
US President Donald Trump has deeply appreciated Bangladesh for hosting more than a million forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar and assured of continued political and humanitarian support to Bangladesh in addressing the crisis.
Trump's message was conveyed to Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque when he met Lisa Curtis, deputy assistant to the US president, in Washington, DC on Friday.
Shahidul also met the White House senior director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council.
According to a press release of Bangladesh embassy in Washington, DC received yesterday, Shahidul during his meeting with Lisa discussed bilateral, regional and global security issues.
The Bangladesh foreign secretary later met Ambassador Alice Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary of the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau at the US state department.
While discussing various aspects of growing partnership between Bangladesh and the US, Ambassador Wells conveyed to Shahidul that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is seized with the issue and commended Bangladesh's extremely generous attitude and efforts to shelter such a huge number of persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar.
The foreign secretary in his last meeting met Ambassador Mark Storella, acting assistant secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the US state department.
During the meeting, Shahidul conveyed Bangladesh's appreciation to the US for strongly supporting Bangladesh in addressing the Rohingya crisis.
Ambassador Mark also praised Bangladesh's humane approach, despite its own resource constrains, to host more than a million Rohingyas who fled the atrocities in northern Rakhine of Myanmar.
He also said the US would continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
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