Bangladesh will hold trilateral talks with China and Myanmar over the ongoing Rohingya crisis during the UN General Assembly in New York, a parliamentary panel was told on Tuesday (Sept 17).
“The [foreign] ministry made the disclosure at a meeting,” Muhammad Faruq Khan, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Bangla Tribune.
The house panel was told that the meeting was likely to be held on Oct 25 or 26.
The tripartite talks will centre on the progress of the efforts to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Rakhine and Myanmar's current stance over the issue.
Nearly 750,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh after the August 2017 military crackdown, which the UN says was perpetrated with "genocidal intent".
Bangladesh is now home to some 1.1 million Rohingyas after the latest exodus, many of whom refuse to go back, fearing more violence.

A UN fact-finding mission said on Monday that the hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas who still remain inside Myanmar face systematic persecution and are living under the threat of genocide, repeating its calls for top generals to face trial.

"The threat of genocide is continuing for the remaining Rohingya," Australian human rights lawyer and panel member Christopher Sidoti said in a statement accompanying a new report issued in Geneva, adding that Myanmar was failing to prevent and punish genocide.

Some 600,000 Rohingya are living in "deplorable" conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, subject to restrictions on movement that touch almost every aspect of their lives, the U.N report said.

"These facts underscore the impossibility of return for the nearly one million Rohingya refugees, mostly in Bangladesh," it added.