China offers aid to Bangladesh over Rohingya refugee crisis
BEIJING — China will offer humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh to help shelter and feed hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, the foreign minister said Friday.
Wang Yi also told reporters that China hoped repatriation of refugees could begin “as early as possible,” following a meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Beijing.
“We will contribute our efforts (to help with offering more humanitarian aids) in line with Bangladesh’s needs,” Wang said.
Ali said the two had had “detailed discussions” about the status of the refugees and that he sought China’s support for the “early reparation of these displaced people back to their homeland” in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.