Touhid to attend emergency meeting on Myanmar issue in Thailand today

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain is determined to lend a hand an emergency assembly in Bangkok this day with regional counterparts to envision the latest allege in Myanmar.

Organised by the Thai authorities, the assembly comprises international ministers and senior officials from Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, China, Laos, and Cambodia.

Discussions will focal level on the evolving allege in Myanmar and collaborative measures among neighbouring worldwide locations.

“This dialogue will almost definitely be considerably quite loads of from formal negotiations. There are three main topics: borders, crime, and the allege in Myanmar,” Touhid said earlier than his departure from Dhaka.

He reiterated that Bangladesh’s main allege is the protection and rights of the 1.3 million Rohingya for the time being sheltered in the nation and making sure their safe and dignified repatriation to their fatherland.

“We trace here is now not a ache that is liable to be solved overnight, nonetheless we want a purposeful resolution,” Touhid emphasised.

Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa will host two regional conferences on Myanmar this week.

In step with world media reviews, on the least such a conferences is anticipated to incorporate representatives from Myanmar’s junta.

In October, Thailand proposed casual talks moving Myanmar, China, India, Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand – worldwide locations sharing borders with Myanmar.

Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether Myanmar international minister will elevate half in the continuing discussions, Reuters reported.

For the rationale that military coup in 2021, Myanmar has been engulfed in escalating battle, with the junta dealing with fundamental resistance from get up groups, namely in border areas.

Gargantuan portions of Rakhine Bid are for the time being below the management of the Arakan Army, including areas along Bangladesh’s virtually 300-kilometer border.

Reports counsel that the general border deliver is dominated by the Arakan Army, leaving simplest Rakhine’s capital, Sittwe, below military management.

Meanwhile, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, staunch by his skedaddle to to Egypt, highlighted the deteriorating allege in Myanmar.

In a assembly with a Malaysian minister, Yunus disclosed that over 80,000 Rohingyas comprise crossed into Bangladesh in latest months because of intensified violence in Rakhine Bid.