UN Secretary General telephones PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to the international community including the United Nations to put more pressure on the Myanmar government for taking back their nationals from Bangladesh and their peaceful rehabilitation in their homeland.
The prime minister made the call when UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres phoned her on Saturday night, reports teh the BSS.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told reporters that the UN secretary general made the phone call to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at around 9:30pm and talked to her about 20 minutes on the Rohingya crisis.
During the telephoning conversation, the prime minister also sought the UN secretary general’s support for the implementation of her five-point proposal she placed in the 72nd UN General Assembly Session held in New York last month.
‘I’ve presented the five-point proposal for sustainable solution to the problem,’ she told Guterres.
The five-point proposal are:
1. Myanmar must unconditionally stop the violence and the practice of ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine State immediately and forever.
2. Secretary General of the United Nations should immediately send a Fact-Finding Mission to Myanmar.
3. All civilians irrespective of religion and ethnicity must be protected in Myanmar. For that ‘safe zones’ could be created inside Myanmar under UN supervision.
4. Ensure sustainable return of all forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh to their homes in Myanmar.
5. The recommendations of Kofi Annan Commission Report must be immediately implemented unconditionally and in its entirety.
The press secretary said that the prime minister thanked the UN secretary general for the phone call and sought his support and continued engagement with the issue until a durable solution to this Rohingya crisis could be found out.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has already been engaged with Myanmar bilaterally to find out a workable arrangement for return of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland by peaceful means.