This Saturday, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha came to Bangladesh for a 5 day including visits to the Rohingya camps inn Cox’s Bazar.
After his arrival, he met the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Foreign Affairs Minister, A.K. Abdul Momen, in a meeting where they discussed about Rohingya crisis. “(The) Rohingya is one of the top priority issues for (the) OIC … These Rohingya people are suffering. They deserve peace, security and a better life,” Taha told reporters after meeting on Sunday.
Taha also urged the member states to do more and help the Gambia with funds to run the case in the International Court of Justice on Rohingya genocide.
During his meeting with Hasina, Taha thanked the Bangladeshi government and people “for their relentless efforts to provide shelters, protection, hospitality, and necessary assistance to Rohingya refugees,” the OIC said in a statement.
On Monday morning, General Secretary Taha went to Kutupalong Four Extension Camp in Ukhiya. Later, he visited several other camps in Ukhiya.
At the camps, the OIC Secretary General held a meeting with representatives of the Refugee Affairs Commission, Rohingya representatives and officials from various NGOs and INGOs.
Additional Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (Deputy Secretary) Md Shamsud Douza said the OIC Secretary General exchanged views with the Rohingyas and talked about their problems.
He also visited BRAC’s youth centre, tree plantation programme and other activities of various organisations. The following day he returned to Dhaka.
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