Suu Kyi wants to send team to discuss Rohingya issue

Myanmar, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi wants to discuss Rohingya issues with Bangladesh bi-laterally, diplomatic sources said Sunday.
Amid the growing pressure on Myanmar, especially from the EU, USA, France, Canada the Myanmar government is now thinking to send special envoy to Dhaka to discuss Rohingya issue with the Bangladesh government.
Bangladesh sought an initiative to discuss the issue bilaterally before August 25 but there had been no feedback from Myanmar side.
Bangladesh has proposed creating "safe zones" run by aid groups for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state
to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing into its territory following a military crackdown but Myanmar ignored.
"The relationship between the two countries cannot be shut on the basis of one or single issue, it is a fact that Rohingya issue is destabilizing the security of this region and world peace at the same time we need to give more focus on bilateral relationship and explore the opportunity to make a doable relationship with all and dissolve all problems mutually," Adviser of the Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina DR. Gawhar Rizvi said.
Bangladesh made the request through The Red Cross, however, Red Cross said that it was a political decision for the two countries to make.
"Now Suu Kyi is willing to send Minister of the Office of State Counselor Kyaw Tint Swe to Bangladesh to holds meeting on Rohingya issue, sources said.
The date of the visit will be finalised once both sides find a mutually convenient time, said the source.
Dhaka sent the proposal to the Myanmar government through the International Committee of the Red Cross to secure three areas in Rakhine, home to the Rohingya community, suggesting that people displaced by the violence be relocated there under the supervision of an international organization, such as the United Nations.Violence in Rakhine State that began on August 25 forced some 436,000 Rohingya refugees to cross the border into Cox's Bazar.
Of all the new arrivals, 429,000 are in need of emergency food assistance.
Among the new arrivals, an estimated 55,770 pregnant and lactating women, and children under 5, require targeted food assistance.
This massive refugee crisis has raised security concerns in the ASEAN region and drawn global attention partly because so many Rohingyas are falling victim to organized human trafficling rings.
"The Rohingya issue has thus become a local problem with regional consequences. Resolving this problem in the long term will require local solutions, but, in the meantime, preventing further Rohingya subjugation should be a major human rights concern for ASEAN member states and the international community�.it is now became an huge international concern," said Dr. Delwar Hossain, an specialist on migration and international relations in the country, said.
The solution lies in Myanmar. The UN hopes that Myanmar can address the root causes of the problem," said Shinji Kubo, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangladesh. Kubo said the Bangladesh government was doing its best by accepting the refugees instead of sending them back.
"Local solutions to Myanmar's Rohingya issue can come in different forms. First and foremost, state-sponsored violence must end, accompanied by respect for human rights. For starters, aid agencies should be allowed to get aid to the Rohingyas and finally they will implement the Annan Commission Report," State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahrier Alam said.
Inclusive dialogue and the promotion of mutual respect and cooperation would also help us to addressthe problem, he added.