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− | A visiting minister has told Bangladesh�s president that Burma is ready to take back Rohingya Muslims who fled violence there, an official has said.<br><br>Presidential spokesman Joynal Abedin said on Friday that | + | A visiting minister has told Bangladesh�s president that Burma is ready to take back Rohingya Muslims who fled violence there, an official has said.<br><br>Presidential spokesman Joynal Abedin said on Friday that [http://burmatourist.com/ burma tourist]�s Home Minister, Kyaw Swe, told President Abdul Hamid in Dhaka that Burma was ready to take back [http://www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=Rohingya Rohingya] under a deal signed by the countries late last year.<br><br>Mr Abedin also quoted the minister as saying that Burma will implement the recommendations by a commission led by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.<br><br>A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox�s Bazar, Bangladesh (DfID/PA)<br><br>Kyaw Swe is scheduled to meet his Bangladeshi counterpart on Friday to discuss the issue further.<br><br>Some 700,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since late August when Burma�s military launched a security crackdown that has been widely criticised as amounting to ethnic cleansing.<br><br>Advertisement |
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A visiting minister has told Bangladesh�s president that Burma is ready to take back Rohingya Muslims who fled violence there, an official has said.
Presidential spokesman Joynal Abedin said on Friday that burma tourist�s Home Minister, Kyaw Swe, told President Abdul Hamid in Dhaka that Burma was ready to take back Rohingya under a deal signed by the countries late last year.
Mr Abedin also quoted the minister as saying that Burma will implement the recommendations by a commission led by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.
A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox�s Bazar, Bangladesh (DfID/PA)
Kyaw Swe is scheduled to meet his Bangladeshi counterpart on Friday to discuss the issue further.
Some 700,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since late August when Burma�s military launched a security crackdown that has been widely criticised as amounting to ethnic cleansing.
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