NEW DELHI: The prime ministers of India and Bangladesh have agreed on the need for greater efforts to facilitate the safe return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar and taken refuge in Bangladesh.
A joint statement Saturday during a visit to India by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that she and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed that the measures should include improving security and socio-economic conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
The statement says that India will provide additional humanitarian aid to help refugees living in neighboring Bangladeshi camps.
In what has become Asia's largest refugee crisis in decades, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have taken shelter in Bangladesh.
The two leaders have also signed agreements on security, energy and transport.
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India, Bangladesh stress safe return of Rohingya refugees
India, Bangladesh stress safe return of Rohingya refugees
- In what has become Asia's largest refugee crisis in decades, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have taken shelter in Bangladesh
- The statement says that India will provide additional humanitarian aid to help refugees living in neighboring Bangladeshi camps
UK, allies convinced Kremlin critic Navalny was poisoned
- That was the conclusion of the five governments based on analyzes of samples from Alexei Navalny – statement
LONDON: Britain and allies France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are convinced that late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin in a penal colony two years ago, they said in a joint statement on Saturday.
That was the conclusion of the five governments based on analyzes of samples from Navalny, according to the statement issued in London.
It added that the analyzes had conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America and not found naturally in Russia. The Russian government has denied any responsibility for Navalny’s death.
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