The visiting US delegation led by Acting Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Mr. Simon Henshaw from the US Department of State called on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. ShahriarAlam MP at his office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this afternoon .
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour (DRL) Mr. Scott Busby, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) Mr. Tom Vajda and Director of the Office of Mainland Asia Ms. Patricia Mahoney including US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat were also present during the meeting.
State Minister expressed his sincere thanks to the Acting Assistant Secretary for the strong political as well as humanitarian support of the US Government on the Rohingya issue.
The State Minister highlighted the five-point proposal given by the Hon’ble Prime Minister at 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in September this and also requested for the continuation of this support in this regard.
The Acting Assistant Secretary deeply appreciated Bangladesh’s decision to temporarily shelter more than 600,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and stated that Bangladesh “responded extremely well” to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis. He also assured the State Minister of support of the United States “both financially and diplomatically” for the safe, sustainable and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. Both sides agreed to continue the pressure on the Myanmar Government in this regard.
The delegation will visit different Rohingya Camps in Cox’s Bazar on 2nd and 3rd November 2017.