Since the latest violence began last August, more than 600,000 Rohingyas fleed their homes and crossed the border into Bangladesh. (Source: nst.com.my)Hanoi (VNA) - Government officials from Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on October24 to halt the outflow of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh and enable therefugees to return home.
Thetwo sides met in Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw, to discuss a crisis that hasseen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee to Bangladesh over the past twomonths to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Myanmaraffirms its commitment to “immediately halt the outflow of Myanmar residents toBangladesh, to restore normalcy in Rakhine to enable displaced Myanmarresidents to return from Bangladesh at the earliest" possible time, thesides said in a joint statement.
The joint statement said that Myanmar declared Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army(ARSA), who attacked Myanmar’s police outposts in August, "a terroristorganisation" and asked Bangladesh to hand over any suspects who may havefled there.
Bangladesh said it would continue to cooperate with Myanmar against insurgents,militants and terrorists.
Previously, the two sides agreed to set up a working group on the repatriationprocess.
Around 600,000 Rohingya from northern Rakhine have fled toBangladesh since August 25, 2017 when Myanmar security forces began securitycampaign.-VNA
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