Sushma Swaraj in Dhaka Rohingya crisis to dominate talks with Bangladesh

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reached at Dhaka on a two-day official visit to attend the India-Bangladesh joint consultative commission meeting.  

A special aircraft carrying the Sushma Swaraj landed at Bangladesh Air Force Base at around 1.45 pm (local time) today. She was received by Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali. 

Among other things, Sushma Swaraj will discuss the ongoing Rohingya crisis during her visit to Dhaka. Bangladesh has been seeking international support including India over  Rohingya refugee issue. According to international aid agencies and UNHCR, around 6 lakh Rohingya refugees, of whom 61 per cent are children, are staying in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar following violence in Myanmar's Rakhine province.