Myanmar committed to taking back Rohingyas as per deal.

Myanmar reaffirmed that they are committed to taking back their banished people, the Rohingyas in Banglsdesh camps, under the repatriation agreement signed between Naypyidaw and Dhaka in 2017.. Myanmar international affairs minister Kyaw Tin, in a letter to his Banglsdesh counterpart, renewed the signed-on pledge while renegotiation of the modalities for the repatriation of the forcibly displaced people from Bangladesh to Rakhine already resumed with the coronavirus onslaught subsiding. Besides, he said, Myanmar is sincere in "peaceful coexistence" and resolving bilateral issues with its neighboring countries, including Bangladesh, through "mutual partnership". Tin made the remarks in a letter written to Bangladesh foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, a foreign ministry press release said in Dhaka Friday. Tin mentioned that Myanmar had taken back Rohingyas in 1978 and 1992 through mutual discussion with Bangladesh. The Myanmar minister thanked Momen for his letter written to him on January 1. He echoed with Dr Momen that 'collaboration and cooperation' are needed among the nations in combating the COVID- 19 pandemic. Dr Momen and Kyaw Tin have good relations since both of them had served their respective countries as the permanent representative in the United Nations. On January 19, a virtual secretary-level tripartite meeting among Bangladesh, China and Myanmar was held discussing the commencing of Rohingya repatriation--a longstanding issue which has already been tried in international arbitration at two UN courts: ICC and IJC. After the meeting, Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen said Dhaka is 'cautiously optimistic' about the start of the much-demanded Rohingya repatriation from 2nd quarter of this year as Naypyidaw showed its flexibility about taking back their nationals during the tripartite talks. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million displaced Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar district and most of them had arrived there since August 25, 2017 after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' by other rights groups. In last three years, Myanmar has not taken back a single Rohingya while the attempts of repatriation failed twice due to trust deficit among the Rohingyas about their safety and security in the Rakhine state. Dhaka became 'cautiously...