Discuss Rohingya, Myanmar Send Special Envoy to Bangladesh - A special envoy of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, was sent to Bangladesh in the effort towards Muslim Rohingya humanitarian mission. He will begin top-level talks in Bangladesh.
Channel News Asia reported, Wednesday, January 11, 2017, Kyaw Tin, Myanmar's deputy foreign minister, will conduct a three-day visit to Dhaka, a capital of Bangladesh. This activity is a diplomatic visit to Myanmar to Bangladesh in order to overcome the biggest challenge Suu Kyi, to resolve the crisis of the Rohingya.
During the visit, the two representatives of these countries will discuss bilateral relations. However, the Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs confirms Aye Aye Soe, Myanmar will not open issues about the complexity of the security in the border region.
"For the situation on the border, the operations are executed is still a limited process to create stability, so I think this first meeting will not produce many (things)," said Soe.
According to the researchers, this visit marks a shift in assumption on the approach previously reluctant to do Myanmar to cooperate with its neighbors.
Rohingya rebels attacked the Myanmar-Bangladesh border post on October 9, 2016, as a result of nine policemen reported killed. In response, Myanmar sent troops to the border area which has a majority Muslim, a northern state of Rakhine.
In the operation of the border, residents and refugees have occurred to explain the execution, arbitrary arrest, and rape. Suu Kyi government denies all these allegations of abuse.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council called the Rohingya crisis forced 65,000 people to flee Myanmar to Bangladesh in the last three months.
Myanmar Navy also reportedly fired on fishermen Bangladesh. As a result, relations between the two neighboring countries is becoming strained and both consider the Rohingya as each issue.
International pressure
Senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh said Kyaw Tin met the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, today. According to the official who declined to be named this, Myanmar sending delegates on the basis of private initiative, so Bangladesh don't need to bring this issue to international forums.
Muslim-majority countries in ASEAN such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have emphasized the Rohingya case publicly. This case also has the potential return for reviews current international meetings, such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to be held in the near future.
"Bangladesh has persuaded and punched in the international forum through the back roads so as not to hinder the relationship," the official said Bangladesh's.
Talks between Myanmar and Bangladesh were complicated by the fact that as many as 500,000 Muslim Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh during the decades of persecution in Myanmar, are not recognized as citizens of Bangladesh. UN Humanitarian Coordination Council noted January 5, 2017, about 65,000 refugees arrived in Bangladesh since October 9, 2016.
Aye Aye Soe questioned the UN figures. "Anyone claiming to be refugees from Myanmar should be examined, referring to the old policy of the government that the return (of refugees) can only be performed to 2,415 people in Bangladesh are recognized Myanmar," he said.
"We need to make sure how many people are arriving and where they come from, but no one can confirm exactly," he said.
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