China is organising the meeting a year after a similar discussion, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Wednesday. The foreign minister said the last such meeting in January last year saw “some progress”, but Myanmar has remained silent since then. The meeting was supposed to be held on Jan 9 or 10, but was delayed because the Chinese foreign minister is visiting Myanmar now. Bangladesh on Monday handed a list of 230,000 more Rohingya refugees to Myanmar for repatriation to their homeland in Rakhine State. He also said Bangladesh has begun biometric registration of the Rohingya refugees, who arrived in the country before 2017, to prevent them from achieving Bangladesh passports and ID cards.

Source: bd News24 January 13, 2021 15:11 UTC