Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun held two separate meetings in Dhaka and discussed issues of mutual interest, including the thorny issue of Rohingya repatriation.
This is his second visit within less then four months and he had meetings with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen separately in Dhaka on Monday, said a diplomatic source.
This time the Chinese special envoy visited Myanmar before coming to Bangladesh. He is scheduled to leave Dhaka on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chosen to play it cool it seems, about the visit of the special envoy. No Foreign Ministry official, nor MoFA itself, shared anything of Xijun’s visit till now.
After his meeting with the Chinese Special Envoy when he came earlier in April, Foreign Minister Momen reiterated his hope that the Rohingyas will start returning to Myanmar acknowledging that he had a discussion on the issue with the Chinese side recently.