Rohingya Issue: Indonesia FM arrives today to hold talks
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi is coming to Dhaka today to convey her country's gesture to stand beside Bangladesh, which has already been helping hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
Diplomatic sources say Marsudi upon her arrival would hold intensive discussions with the government high-ups including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina apparently to mobilise international support to help stop violence against the Rohingyas.
Around 90,000 Rohingyas have been forced to escape to Bangladesh in the face of mass killing as well as rape, brutal torture, arsons and forced disappearance by the Myanmar security forces since August 25.
The Indonesian minister is coming to Dhaka after meeting Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urging her to stop repression of the Rohingyas by the security forces.
Dhaka has welcomed Indonesia's willingness to engage with Myanmar to find ways to contain the escalation of violence and find a solution to the protracted problem.
The diplomatic sources add the main focus of the Indonesian minister would be finding a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis.
Retno Marsudi, who visited Dhaka on December 20 last year after similar attacks on the Rohingyas, would hold a meeting with her Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali. She would arrive around noon today and depart around 10:00pm.
Earlier, she had a telephone conversation with Mahmood following fresh violence in the Rakhine state that resulted in the influx of the Muslim minority group into Bangladesh.
Earlier on Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Bangladesh counterpart Md Abdul Hamid over the current state of the Rohingya crisis and expressed his support to the measures taken by Bangladesh so far.
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