Experts: Dhaka needs to utilize growing global pressure on Myanmar

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There should be negotiations with other countries, and it will be easier for Bangladesh to talk about the issue, Prof Imtiaz Ahmed said

Description: 

"Foreign affairs analysts have said Bangladesh needs to utilize the growing global pressure on Myanmar until a solution to the Rohingya crisis is found. The pressure is not only building on Myanmar, rather it is a pressure for Myanmar’s friends too who kept mum amidst questions of why other countries cannot do the same as Gambia and Argentina, one of the foreign affairs analysts said. “The pressure on Myanmar should be there until there is a solution. I think it will not be wise for us to give up until a solution is found. We should not stop here,” Prof Imtiaz Ahmed of Dhaka University’s (DU) International Relations department said, reports UNB. There should be negotiations with other countries, and it will be easier for Bangladesh to talk about the issue, he added. Prof Imtiaz said, there are already questions around why the European Union (EU), Canada, France or other countries cannot do the same on the legal front as they talk much about human rights..."

Source/publisher: 

"Dhaka Tribune" (Bangladesh)

Date of Publication: 

2019-11-16

Date of entry: 

2019-11-18

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar, Bangladesh

Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar: 

Rakhine State

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good