Bangladesh, Myanmar agree on "working group" for refugee plan:minister

DHAKA, 2 October 2017 - Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to set up a "joint working group" on the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugee who have fled to Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told reporters after talks with a Myanmar official.

"We are looking forward to a peaceful solution to the crisis," Ali said after his talks with Myanmar government official Kyaw Tint Swe.

More than half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since late August, to escape what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing by Myanmar's military.