Rohingya crisis
issue will be one of the main agenda of discussion at the 45th Session of the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers starting
tomorrow in Dhaka.
OIC Assistant
Secretary General Hashmi Yousuf came up with the comment before reporters when
he along with other ministers and representatives of the OIC countries visited
Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar this afternoon.
The OIC will work
with the international communities and the United Nations to repatriate the
Rohingyas to Myanmar, he assured.
He also apologised
on behalf of the OIC for not being able to response immediately to the crisis,
reports our correspondent from the spot.
The high-level
delegation reached Cox's Bazar around 11:00am to visit the Rohingya refugee
camps.
Canadian Foreign
Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Special Envoy
to Myanmar Bob Rae, Canada's Special Envoy to the OIC Masud Husain, Bangladesh
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md
Shahriar Alam are accompanying the delegation.
Diplomatic sources
in Dhaka believe the back-to-back visits of the UN Security Council delegation
and OIC foreign ministers would have a positive impact towards a sustainable
solution to the crisis.
The high-level
15-member delegation of the UN Security Council on April 28 reached Cox's Bazar
to see the brutalities that Rohingyas faced.
The two-day OIC meet
will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre tomorrow.
The OIC is
considered the second largest inter-governmental organisation after the United
Nations, with the membership of 57 states, covering four continents, with a
collective population of over 1.6 billion.
The delegation will
return in the afternoon to attend a dinner hosted by Ali at the Sonargaon Hotel.
More than 700,000
Myanmar's Muslim Rohingyas took shelter after a military crackdown in Myanmar’s
Rakhine State.