Momen leaves for Turkey Sunday, bilateral talks on Sept 15
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will leave Dhaka for Turkey in Sunday in a four-day visit for holding a bilateral ending up in his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in September 15 and joining the inaugural ceremony of Bangladesh Chancery sophisticated on Ankara, reports BSS.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will almost inaugurate the newly built Bangladesh chancery complex in Turkish capital Ankara while Momen combined with the Turkish international minister are anticipated to be present in the complex on September 14.
"Rohingya crisis, D-8 summit and trade cooperation between Bangladesh and Turkey will get highlighted in the assembly (with Turkish international minister in Ankara on Sept 15)," Momen told BSS today.
Apart from joining chancery complex inauguration ceremony and positioning the bilateral meeting, Momen can be likely to ask Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and scheduled to carry meetings with local organization delegations and President of Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF).
"Turkey has been very supportive to Bangladesh found in resolving the Rohingya concern," Momen said, adding that Ankara has already assured Dhaka that they would raise the Rohingya repatriation issue at the next US Security Council (UNSC) assembly.
Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar district and almost all 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".
In the last 3 years, not really a single Rohingya returned home although Myanmar had decided to take them back.
During the ending up in his Turkish counterpart, Momen stated, he would also speak about issues linked to hosting D-8 summit in Dhaka tentatively in January and February up coming depends on the COVID-19 pandemic condition.
“If the problem won't improve, we must do it (summit) nearly … though we wish to host the summit physically in Dhaka,” he said.
Bangladesh will need over as the next Chair of the D-8 through Dhaka Summit that was first supposed to be held in May this year but delayed as a result of pandemic.
Currently, Turkey chairs the D-8, Organization for Economic Cooperation, generally known as Developing-8, that also comprised seven other countries - Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Dhaka also expected Turkish backing in order that Bangladesh may avail support from the seven trillion us dollars fund, created by G-20 for minimal developed countries (LDCs).
The foreign minister will return home on September 16.
