Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry yesterday.
The statement came after the visit of Myanmar Minister of State for Foreign Affairs U. Kyaw Tin to Bangladesh as special envoy of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi over the last two days, Xinhua news agency reported.
The refugees concerned are those persons who fled armed men in the October 9 attacks on three border posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The Myanmar minister met with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali during the state visit.
