Today at UN General Assembly room will join in UN conference on Rohingya “Muslim’ and situation of other minorities in Myanmar. I am not in favor of giving Muslim tag to the Rohingyas, or it is not only Muslim Rohingya who are refugees. There are Hindu Rohingya and also Christian Rohingyas in Coxsbazar refugee camps too.

Several dignitaries will join including UNHCR chief Filipo Grandi and UNHRC Volkar Turk, there will be representation from OIC and ASEAN group, speakers include Rohingya activist from around the world.

First half of the day was for speaking from dignitaries and second half was open especially for attendees including civil societies. In last eight years may be in history this is the first time officially and separately Rohingya issue will be discussed in UN floor for a solution.

This has happened due to Dr Yunus and his adviser Dr Khalilur Rahman, they have succeeded to place the issue in international forum. Now it must be carried forward, may be partly with government of Bangladesh, partly with other Muslim countries especially with OIC groups, and partly with Rohingya diaspora activists.

Carrying forward is a crucial issue. There are some prominent Rohingya activist in worldwide, but they have hardly strongly connected each other, recently some UK based Rohingya activists formed a Rohingya political party. Let us hope for the best and assist them to be organized and to raise the issue in international level.

I do not think that the present Myanmar junta will take these initiatives easily, they have support from India, China, and Russia, partly from USA too, they are having an election in this December, I wonder whether the Rohingya issue will be a critical issue in next election.

For Bangladesh it is for getting rid of the Rohingya refugees, but for Rohingya it is a dignified repatriation, which is in fact recognition of their citizenship rights, which they have been deprived in long time. How long Bangladesh can support this, if not the Rohingya Refugees will remain in Bangladesh.

If there will not be any tangible outline on future course of action on realization of Rohingya rights, but at least there will be good propaganda which will benefit to UN agencies in respect of getting new fund for their Rohingya refugee operation.

UN are in good position, they get grants while Bangladesh gets loan for Refugee operation. Bangladesh has already received $ 400 million loan from World Bank.

In last two weeks we have two press conference in both Coxsbazar and Dhaka, tried to raise concern that UN should invest to recovery of water and land of Coxsbazar, and also we have presented a study on how low cost operation in Rohingya response is possible. We have widely circulated our press release, position papers and vedios. We are here not with empty head.