Dhaka to apprise foreign envoys of Rohingya issue today

The foreign Ministry will sit with the heads of foreign missions and the aid agencies today (Sunday) to discuss the Rohingya issue.
"To apprise the international community about Rohingya issue and government's immediate measures, especially humanitarian aid support, provided by the local administration in Cox's Bazar, we are going to sit with them on Sunday and Monday," Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the Daily Observer on Saturday.
"The issues relating to security, push back of Rohingyas', isolation of Rohingyas' from the local people, drug and examining local and international radical forces activity here and international support for implementing  the Annan Commission's report by the Myanmar government will come up for discussion," a senior official of the Foreign Ministry said.
UN agencies and NGOs, operating in Cox's Bazar, are supporting the government to meet the needs of the new arrivals. They are providing emergency shelter, food, fresh drinking water, and nutritional support along with the local people, but the wave of Rohingya has smashed all calculation.
"UN refugee agency estimated that around 270,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh over the past two weeks. They are now facing food crisis as the organization found tens of thousands of refugees who had not been counted before, raising the count dramatically to 270,000 from some 164,000 the day before. On Saturday, that jumped by another 20,000 as the stream of hungry, traumatised and destitute people showed no signs of abating. So they need more aid to manage the situation," a senior official of the foreign ministry said.
As the wave of refugees is continuing, we need huge aid and proper monitoring and international support in this regard, he added.
According to the diplomatic sources, the international community lauded the Bangladesh government's efforts in providing access to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar on urgent humanitarians needs but it needs to share other related issue.
Bangladesh wants to place the issue before the UN Security Council meeting next month. On Friday, rights groups briefed the member countries' representatives to UN Security Council on the Myanmar violence. "Turkey is standing beside Bangladesh but other member countries are reluctant. So, the foreign ministry needs a huge groundworks here,"former ambassador Mohammad Zamir said.
Bangladesh need to take immediate measures to complete the registration process of Rohingyas', otherwise it will face difficulties in near future, he added.