YANGON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with the Advisory Board on Rakhine State to discuss its work plan, Myanmar News Agency reported Tuesday.
The meeting was held in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, one day ahead of the planned repatriation of displaced Rohingya people from Bangladesh to Myanmar's Rakhine state.
In August 2017, an Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, released its final report with recommendations to solve the Rakhine issue. The recommendations are being carried out by an implementation committee headed by Myanmar's Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Minister Win Myat Aye.
An Advisory Board was later formed with experts from home and abroad on Dec. 14, 2017 , led by Surakiart Sathirathai, chairman of Asia Peace and Reconciliation Council and former Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, to support the committe's work.
Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate refugees from Bangladesh for those verified as Myanmar nationals who had lived in Rakhine as place of origin.
Set to receive the returnees five days per week, the Myanmar side has suggested Bangladesh side to include 1,258 people of Hindu and Muslim faiths, verified as Myanmar residents, in the first batch of repatriation.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government has invited local and international communities to cooperate with it in the rebuilding and resettlement efforts for conflict-torn Rakhine state.
The ARSA extremist terrorists launched attacks on police outposts in Rakhine on Aug. 25 last year, displacing residents from a number of areas in Maungtaw district.
