The country is not going to have any good news regarding the solution to the Rohingya crisis or repatriation of over 11 lakh Myanmar nationals living in Bangladesh, says the foreign minister. "Many of you will ask me about the Rohingya crisis: our strategic stance about the Rohingya issue is more or less doing well. I hope in the distant future, I'll be able to give you good news about it," Dr AK Abdul Momen said in Parliament yesterday. He made the remark while speaking in the House on the thanksgiving motion on the President's speech.

The foreign minister, while answering a tabled question in Parliament on Monday, said any repatriation process is a complex and lengthy matter.

Meanwhile, the Organization for Islamic

Cooperation (OIC) has agreed to convene a pledging conference, during the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers meeting to be held in Niger on April 3-4, to mobilize resources for the ICJ case against Myanmar on accountability for human rights violations against the Rohingyas. The agreement was reached yesterday during the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) preparatory to the upcoming 47th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting to be held in Niamey, Niger.  Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen led the Bangladesh delegation at the OIC Senior Officials Meeting held at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah on February 9-11, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  

The SOM welcomed the historic unanimous decision on 23 January 2020 of the International Court of Justice ordering Provisional Measures to prevent further acts of genocide against the Rohingyas in Myanmar, which sets a historical precedence in legal efforts in upholding the rights of persecuted minorities anywhere in the world.   The OIC delegates also agreed to Bangladesh proposals for continued support to the Gambia in the case at ICJ until a final verdict is issued, follow up on the ICJ's notification of its order of provisional measures to the UN Security Council pursuant to Article 41(2) of the Statute of ICJ and to contribute in the resources mobilization efforts to ensure safe, dignified and sustained return and resettlement of the Rohingyas to their legitimate homeland in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

 The OIC General Secretariat has set up a dedicated Account to facilitate the resource mobilization efforts.

The 45th OIC CFM held in Dhaka established an OIC Ad Hoc Ministerial Committee on Accountability for Human Rights Violations Against the Rohingyas, with The Gambia as Chair, with a view to mobilize and coordinate international political support, particularly through the 57-member OIC process.

Following a submission by The Gambia, on behalf of OIC, the ICJ held its first hearing on 10-12 December 2019 in the case against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar for its gross violation of human rights against the Rohingyas.