Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen on Sunday said Dhaka has been continuing its efforts to repatriate forcibly displaced Rohingya to their land of origin in Myanmar but it is not the lone responsibility of Bangladesh.
"It is not only our responsibility rather the world's big powers have the similar responsibility to commence the repatriation," he told media after attending a programme.
The foreign minister said the Rohingya repatriation has been prolonged due to the lack of sincerity of the global powers regarding the issue.
He said that not a single Rohingya was repatriated to Myanmar in the last five years though Naypyidaw never said that they would not take back their people.
"We will continue our efforts to commence the repatriation in bilateral, trilateral and multilateral forms," he said adding that even the genocide case ageist Myanmar was filed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The foreign minister said he urged several developed countries to take some Rohingya from Bangladesh under third country resettlement initiative unless repatriation is started.
Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.2 million forcefully displaced Rohingya in Cox's Bazar district and most of them arrived there after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and other rights groups dubbed as "genocide".
Earlier, the foreign minister handed over wheelchairs and sewing machines among the disadvantaged people organized by AL Khayer Foundation at the Dhopadighi area in Sylhet city.
Sylhet district Council Chairman and district Awami League general secretary Nasir Uddin Khan and city Awami League General Secretary Professor Zakir Hossain were present, among others.
