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US for mounting more pressure on Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation
DHAKA, March 16, 2020 (BSS) – US Ambassador in Dhaka Earl Robert Miller today called for mounting more pressure on Myanmar to take back its Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh.
“More pressure should be created on Myanmar to take back its nationals from Bangladesh,” he said.
The US ambassador expressed this view when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence here this evening.
After the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters.
He said the US envoy highly appreciated the generosity of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for hosting over 1.1 million forcibly displaced Rohingya nationals in Bangladesh.
The press secretary said the prime minister and the US ambassador also discussed the issue of novel coronavirus outbreak that had spread across the globe.
In this connection, Sheikh Hasina apprised Miller of her government’s precautionary measures to combat the lethal virus.
At the outset of the meeting, the US ambassador extended his warm congratulations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of the “Mujib Year”.
He said the US embassy will celebrate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu by holding separate programmes.
The prime minister said the government has revised the birth centenary programmes in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
Sheikh Hasina said the government has taken various social programmes, including tree plantation, on the occasion of the Mujib Year.
“Our aim is to ensure electricity and housing for all by Mujib Year … we want a single house will not remain without electricity and a single person will not stay homeless by Mujib Year,” she said.
The US ambassador presented an album to the prime minister which contains the photographs of the meeting of Bangabandhu and the then US President Gerald Ford during the Father of the Nation’s visit to the USA in 1974, the press secretary said.
Sheikh Hasina thanked the ambassador for presenting the album and also conveyed her regards to the US president through the envoy.
PM’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus was present on the occasion.
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