Bangladesh: Syed Muazzem Ali-India should take more initiative

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 01:48 AM

Bangladesh: Syed Muazzem Ali-India should take more initiative

Syed Muazzem Ali, the Bangladesh High Commissioner to India on Monday said that Rohingya refugee crisis is a major concern and India should take more initiatives to find a solution to this.

“Let us be very clear that the Rohingya issue is a major security concern in the region,” Ali said during an interaction with the media.

“It is a fire in our neighbourhood and before it engulfs all of us, we must put it out,” he said.

He said these people uprooted from their hearth and homes were vulnerable to all kinds of radicalisation, and citing UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said that children and women could also become victims of human trafficking.

Ali said that it was for the mutual advantage of both India and Bangladesh to work together to resolve this issue.

“India has borders with both Myanmar and Bangladesh and India, and as the prime mover of the Bimstec process, it should take more initiative so that these people are returned to their homes where they could live in safety and dignity,” he stated.