Dhaka expects to raise Rohingya issue before G-20 Summit in Delhi

Staff Reporter :
Dhaka is expecting to raise its issues including the Rohingya crisis before the G-20 Summit scheduled to be held on 1-2 March in Delhi where Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will attend the foreign minister-level meeting of the alliance.
“India is the Chair of the G-20 Summit this year. They have done a unique job this year by inviting nine non-members from South-South countries to attend it to get their opinions about this region. Bangladesh has been invited as well,” he said.
While talking to the journalists in his office the Foreign Ministry on Monday said, “This summit has opened up an opportunity for us to table the issues of Bangladesh in this region.”
“We will raise our issues before the foreign minister level conference on March 1-2. It is a big honour for us because it will help us to pinpoint our issues before the development partners,” he said.
In reply to a query about what issues would be placed before the alliance, he said, “We are working on it. Our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to India in September. India Foreign Minister will come here and we will have discussion on an array of issues.”
Following the invitation, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the 18th G-20 Heads of State and Government Summit scheduled to be held on September 9 and 10 in New Delhi.
At the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Hasina paid a state visit to India from September 5 to 8 last year.

Prior to it, the Indian Foreign Secretary will hand over the formal invitation letter to the Prime Minister and hold bilateral talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Masud Bin Momen, Foreign Ministry sources said.
As the Chair of the Summit, India has invited Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritius, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Spain and the United Arab Emirates as guest countries to its meetings and summit.
Apart from it, India has also invited the UN, IMF, World Bank, WHO, WTO, ILO, FSB and OECD, chairs of regional organisations AU, AUDA-NEPAD and ASEAN as well as International Solar Alliance, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and Asian Development Bank as guest international organizations, Ministry of External Affairs, India sources said.
The Group of Twenty (G-20), an intergovernmental forum, comprises 19 countries – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, United Kingdom, United States and the European Union.
The G-20 members represent around 85 per cent of the global GDP, over 75 per cent of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population.