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CPC assures Bangladesh PM of pursuing Myanmar over Rohingyas
BEIJING, July 5, 2019 (BSS) – China’s governing party CPC today assured
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of pursuing Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya
crisis, a day after Chinese premier Li Keqiang pledged to extend Beijing’s
support for repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar people.
“We’ll contact with the Myanmar political leaders, including Aung San Suu
Kyi, to solve the Rohingya problem amicably,” Communist Party of China (CPC)
Minister for International Affairs Song Tao told the Bangladesh premier
calling on her this afternoon.
During the meeting at Diaoyuati State Guest House in Beijing, Song Tao
said the CPC would pursue Myanmar leaders to take back the first batch of
Rohingyas in the soonest possible time to mark the launching of the repatriation
process.
The CPC assurance came a day after Li Keqiang acknowledged the issue to be
a major crisis, saying “there is no doubt that it’s a big problem for
Bangladesh” which should be resolved fast.
“Both Bangladesh and Myanmar are friends of China . . . we previously
helped the two countries solve the Rohingya problem and we’ll continue our
efforts,” the Chinese prime minister told his Bangladesh counterpart at the
yesterday’s meeting.
Sheikh Hasina is now in China on a five-day official visit to join the
World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting and hold meetings with the top Chinese
leaders.
Bangladesh premier’s Speech Writer Md Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after
her meeting with the CPC minister saying, Song Tao assured that China will
continue support to Bangladesh’s development strides as well while he highly
appreciating Bangladesh’s tremendous development under her leadership.
“A very friendly relation now prevails between the two countries and we’ll
continue support for Bangladesh’s development endeavours,” Song Tao said.
The CPC leader mentioned that Bangladesh attained very high GDP growth, which he
said was “rare in the world”.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh attained 8.1 percent GDP growth in the last
fiscal and set a target of achieving 8.2 percent growth in the current
fiscal.
Song Tao expressed his hope that relations between the CPC and Bangladesh
Awami League would be further deepened and expected the Bangladesh’s ruling
party to send its leaders of different strata to China to make closer the
ties between the two parties.
He said a CPC delegation was expected to visit Bangladesh in the near future
as well.
Sheikh Hasina described Chine to be a major development partner while a
deep relation exists between Bangladesh Awami League and the CPC.
She recalled her first visit to China in 1993 as the leader of the
opposition, saying that visit laid the foundation of ties between the CPC and
Awami League.
“We’ll always try so that the good relations continue,” Sheikh Hasina
said.
She said both Bangladesh and China have an identical goal of poverty
alleviation and fulfilling the basic needs of people while “our government is
working untiringly to achieve the goal”.
Sheikh Hasina also remembered the Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s China visit in 1952 and 1957.
She said after those visits, Bangabandhu narrated his experiences to her
and predicted that a “new China” is going to be emerged.
“I’m now seeing that China which Bangabandhu had predicted,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said she was currently editing a book named “New China” from
Bangabandhu’s diary which was expected to be published soon.
The CPC leader expressed interest to translate the book into Chinese
language to be distributed among the Chinese people.
The prime minister extended her heartiest congratulations to the Chinese
people and the CPC on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the
People’s Republic of China.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, PM’s Private Investment and Industry
Affairs Adviser Salman F Rahman, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md
Shahriar Alam, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Muhammad Faruk Khan accompanied the premier
during the meeting.
Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque and Bangladesh Ambassador to China M
Fazlul Karim were present on the occasion, among others.
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