{"id":8218,"date":"2019-11-03T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8218-malaysia-backs-call-for-dedicated-asean-team-to-help-rohingya-return-home\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:09:50","slug":"malaysia-backs-call-for-dedicated-asean-team-to-help-rohingya-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8218-malaysia-backs-call-for-dedicated-asean-team-to-help-rohingya-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia backs call for dedicated Asean team to help Rohingya return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah expressed his country\u2019s support for a \u201cfull-time, dedicated team\u201d to implement the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced from<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah expressed his country\u2019s support for a \u201cfull-time, dedicated team\u201d to implement the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced from their home in Myanmar\u2019s conflict-riddled Rakhine state.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal to establish such a team was made by Asean secretary-general Lim Jock Hoi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe full-time group should enlist volunteers from civil society organizations (CSOs) working on the process,\u201d according to a statement posted on Abdullah\u2019s personal Facebook page tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, Asean should facilitate a process of meaningful dialogue between Myanmar and Rohingya refugees in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh in order to build a foundation of trust needed for the facilitation of voluntary repatriation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad flew in earlier this afternoon and will be leading the Malaysian delegation for the summit which has as its theme \u201cadvancing partnership for sustainability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The mass exodus of the Muslim Rohingya people from their home in Myanmar the last two years where they have been denied citizenship has been a problem for the regional bloc that has a strong non-interference policy.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia, which has sheltered an estimated 95,000 Rohingya, has been a vocal advocate of justice and citizenship for the refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah expressed his country\u2019s support for a \u201cfull-time, dedicated team\u201d to implement the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced from\u00a0 Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah expressed his country\u2019s support for a \u201cfull-time, dedicated team\u201d to implement the repatriation of the Rohingya Muslims who have been displaced from their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[60,46],"class_list":["post-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-malaysia","tag-rohingya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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