A 22-member delegation from Myanmar arrived in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf Wednesday to verify the information about Rohingyas enlisted for repatriation and willing to return to Rakhine.

They arrived at Teknaf Jetty Ghat by speed boat across the River Naf River in the morning. Officials of the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, Border Guard Bangladesh, and law enforcers welcomed them.

Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mohammed Mizanur Rahman said seventeen officials of Myanmar – two from the foreign ministry officials, 15 from the immigration department, and five from the police have come here to hold talks with the Rohingyas residing in camps to discuss the repatriation.

They met with the officials of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Office.

The delegation also met with some of the Rohingyas of the refugee camps, who are willing to return to their homes in Rakhine, at the Teknaf land port.

The delegation will verify the list of Rohingyas willing to return to Myanmar, Mizanur said. "They will also visit Rohingya camps."

More than 1,000 Rohingya could be taken back under family-based repatriation initially, including hundreds of Hindu Rohingyas, he added.

Earlier, the Bangladesh government sent a list of 8.62 lakh Rohingyas for repatriation to Myanmar. Out of it, 70,000 were selected for repatriation.

However, efforts to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar ended in smoke as the Rohingyas refused to go back to Myanmar without a guarantee of a safe, secure and dignified return to Rakhine.

More than a million Rohingyas now live in camps in Bangladesh – mostly in Cox's Bazar. Over 30, 000 Rohingyas have been relocated to Bhasan Char.