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Japan, Germany, Sweden ministers visit Rohingyas

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Update: 2017-11-19 01:37:25
Japan, Germany, Sweden ministers visit Rohingyas Rohingya refugees (File photo)

DHAKA: The ministers for foreign affairs of Japan, Germany and Sweden are inspecting the situation of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar camps of Bangladesh Sunday (November 19).

Three choppers carried the ministers separately, leaving Tejgaon Air base in Dhaka at around 9:30am, for Cox’s Bazar.  

Bangladesh foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali is leading the visit.

They are--Japan’s Tarō Kōno, Germany’s Sigmar Gabriel and Margot Wallström of Sweden.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini also accompanied them.

They will visit the Rohingya in Ukhia, Balukhali area of Teknaf and Kutupalong camps. They are supposed to exchange views with the displaced people.

Myanmar military operations caused more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh since late August. World communities have been denouncing the campaign since its beginning in Myanmar’s Rakhine state which was termed as ‘textbook example’ of ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the United Nations. 

However, Bangladesh minister AH Mahmood Ali earlier sat in a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Tarō Kōno, at the state guest house Padma, at 8:00am. It continued for almost 1.15hrs.

The meeting sources said that Bangladesh sought Japan’s cooperation with a vow to solve the Rohingya problem. Japan responded to the call.

Earlier, the foreign ministers arrived in Dhaka Saturday (November 19).

After visiting the Rohingya camps, they will back to Dhaka in the evening.

They along with Mahmood Ali are scheduled to leave for Myanmar capital Naypyidaw at the night, to attend the 13th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM13) on November 20, 21. 

BDST: 1236 HRS, NOV 19, 2017
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