Sushma tells PM Hasina: India fully supporting Bangladesh's position over Rohingya issue

Dhaka September 15, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has insisted the Indian Government's full support to Bangladesh's position over the Rohingya issue.

Sheik Hasina's Deputy Press Secretary Nazrul Islam said that Sushma spoke to the Bangladesh Prime Minister via telephone and conveyed the message to her, The Daily Star detailed.

Sushma accentuated that India is trying to build bilateral and multilateral pressure on Myanmar to stop the oppression of Rohingya Muslims and in addition to reclaim the displaced people shielded in Bangladesh.

"The Rohingya issue is not an issue for Bangladesh alone; rather, it has transformed into a global issue from a territorial one," Sushma told Hasina.

The Rohingya Muslims, who have taken refuge in Cox's Bazar and Teknaf border areas in Bangladesh after they fled the barbarous persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State, are now suffering due to an absence of food, shelters, medicines, sanitation facilities and clean water.

Recently, India sent a committal of compassionate help to Bangladesh, in response to the humanitarian crisis.

This improvement came days after Bangladesh informed India about the issues confronted by it because of the inundation of outcasts from Myanmar following the ethnic savagery in the Buddhist-greater part country.

In the interim, Hasina said that the whole world is raising its voice against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and was calling upon the legislature to take their citizens back.

Prime Minister Hasina will likewise make a formal proposition at the up and coming 72nd United Nations General Assembly session for an early usage of suggestions by the Kofi Annan-drove Commission.

The Advisory Commission recommended that the Myanmar Government find a way to end the upheld isolation of Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims; guarantee full and liberated helpful access all through the state; handle Rohingya statelessness and "return to" the 1982 Citizenship Law; consider culprits of human rights infringement responsible; and end confinements on opportunity of development, among different suggestions.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali said that Prime Minister Hasina would feature the underlying driver behind the longstanding helpful emergency and place particular proposition for early arrangement amid her address at the general level headed discussion on September 21.

Prime Minister Hasina will likewise ask the world pioneers to assume a compelling part in ceasing the genocide of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.