“The world should think that how the Rohingya crisis can be resolved so that they could return to their homeland and have a decent life there,” she said, reports UNB.
The premier said this while a British cross party parliamentary delegation led by Vice Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Bangladesh and Chair of APPG on Indo-British, Virendra Sharma, MP, paid a courtesy call on her at her official Ganabhaban residence.
PM’s Speechwriter M Nazrul Islam briefed the newsmen after the meeting.
This is the first parliamentary visit from the UK since general elections were held in Bangladesh on January 7 last.
During the meeting, Sheikh Hasina said they gave shelter to the Rohingyas after their mass exodus in face of inhuman torture in 2017.
The Myanmar has agreed to take back their nationals, but has yet to take any measure to this end despite the fact that six years have already passed, she said.
Mentioning that the global monetary assistance decreases since the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war, she said, “So, Rohingyas are now becoming a huge burden for a small country like Bangladesh”.
