DHAKA:  The outgoing Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Nur Ashikin binti Mohd Taib termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as a person with a very big heart.

Nur Ashikin binti Mohd Taib paid a farewell call on Bangladesh premier at her office on Thursday (January 31).

Later, PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters.

The Malaysian High Commissioner said, “Sheikh Hasina is a person of very big heart, so she provided a large number of displaced Rohingyas.”

Commending Bangladesh’s rapid development, she said Bangladesh seemed to be her own country during her tenure.

Urging international community, including Malaysia, to mount pressure on Myanmar to take back the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland, PM Sheikh Hasina said but the large amount of Rohingya are creating pressure on the country.

The premier, however, highlighted her government’s plan for temporary relocation of the Rohingyas to Bhanshanchar Island.  

Sheikh Hasina thanked Malaysian government for providing assistance to Rohingya refugees on humanitarian grounds.

Citing the displaced people have been provided shelter on the humanitarian ground, Sheikh Hasina said “You can’t keep your eyes closed during such humanitarian crisis.”

BDST: 1917 HRS, JAN 31, 2019

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