IOM Bangladesh Chief of Mission Sarat Dash and UNHCR Bangladesh Country Representative Shinji Kubo Tuesday have accompanied Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi and Bangladesh Minister of Foreign Affairs Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali on a field visit to Cox’s Bazar to see the developing crisis of civilians fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to seek protection in Bangladesh.
Foreign Minister Marsudi visited Bangladesh on a one-day familiarisation visit, during which she is also scheduled to meet with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to discuss the evolving situation. Her visit to Bangladesh comes on the wake of an Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers meeting in Yangon organized by the Government of Myanmar in an effort to reduce regional concerns over the situation in the northern part of Rakhine State.
The high level delegates visited a registered refugee camp and a makeshift settlement in the Cox’s Bazar district of Ukhia, where they met both with refugees and Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMN), who have been in the country for many years. They also met with those who have arrived since the violence erupted in early October 2016. The discussions with the community allowed the visitors to better understand the ground realities that have forced some 34,000 civilians to cross the border into Bangladesh in recent weeks and months. (Courtesy of reliefweb.int)
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