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Govt to renew passports of Rohingyas in Saudi

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 14 Nov 2022, 11:45 am

Own Correspondent, Dhaka, Nov 14: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the expired Bangladeshi passports of the Rohingyas staying in Saudi Arabia will be renewed.

The Home Minister said this to reporters after a meeting with the delegation led by Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Dawood, who is visiting Bangladesh.

The meeting was held on Sunday (November 13) in the meeting room of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Home Minister led the delegation of Bangladesh. The Home Minister said that the topic of 'Rohingya' came up in the discussion and said that they have given enough cooperation to take back the Rohingyas. Saudi Arabia is providing all kinds of support to the Rohingyas by NGOs and government. How can it be strengthened? How they (Rohingya) will return to Myanmar safely and with dignity - these issues were discussed.

He said, about the Rohingyas, they said that 3,00,000 Rohingyas are living there. They are doing business there. They asked Rohingyas to renew their passports. System wise we are renewing the passports. We are going to have a joint working committee. So that the problems that exist can be solved.

The minister said that Rohingyas have gone there with Bangladeshi passports, that's why the issue of passport renewal is coming up, they have become our country, it is correct. They entered Bangladesh in a hurry. Three lakh people who went, they did not go with our passports. They went into their own mechanism.

Ambassador of Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Javed Patori said, "Some people (Rohingya) have taken our passports from here. Now there are about three generations of Rohingyas. He took Pakistani passport before becoming Bangladeshi.

What is our position? On whether we will give our identity cards to the Rohingyas, the ambassador said, this is not the case. They (Rohingya) were not asked to give their identity cards. As he said, there was a discussion on the issue of speeding up the process of Bangladeshis who are staying, who are Bangladeshis, who need to renew their passports.

Later, the Home Minister said, "We are not going to give passports to those who have been living there (in Saudi Arabia) for years, nor are we going to identify them. We are committed to renewing the passports of those whom we have given, by identifying those who went under special consideration."