News Desk: Dhaka,
Oct-05,
Bangladesh has called
on the international community and the regional countries to step up their
efforts to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Expressing serious
concern at the growing sense of hopelessness in the Rohingya camps in
Bangladesh over the delay in repatriation, Permanent Representative to the UN
Ambassador Rabab Fatima has said that urgent action is the need of the hour.
"Creating a
conducive environment in the Rakhine State and ensuring accountability for the
horrendous crimes committed against them are critical in this regard,” she
said, while delivering her statement at the 3rd committee general debate held
at the UN headquarters on Monday.
“While Bangladesh is
doing its best to ensure humanitarian assistance to the Rohingyas, including by
ensuring vaccination of all the eligible Rohingyas, the ultimate solution to
this protracted crisis lies in their safe, sustainable, and dignified return to
Myanmar,” she said.
“We will work with the
OIC and the European Union on the annual resolution in this Committee on the
human rights situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar,”
the diplomat added.
In her statement,
Ambassador Fatima also outlined Bangladesh’s core priorities in the third
committee this year.
"Apart from the
resolution of Rohingya crisis, the key priorities of Bangladesh include
ensuring vaccine equity, promoting women empowerment and addressing violence
against women, ensuring rights of children including their right to education,
protecting the rights and well-beings of migrant workers, and promotion and
protection of human rights at the national and global levels."
Shedding light on the
disproportionate impact of the pandemic on vulnerable people, the Ambassador
called for greater solidarity and cooperation to promote an inclusive and
resilient recovery.
“The pandemic has
exacerbated pre-existing inequalities and exclusion both within and across our
societies. And we believe that this Committee has a special responsibility to
promote actions to protect the most vulnerable, and to help us chart a recovery
that leaves no one behind,” she said.
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