Bangladesh: Burma ready to take back Rohingya
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�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 tourist 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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