Japan has assured of its efforts towards repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

“Finding lasting solutions to this crisis will be conducive to our pursuit of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki.

He said Japan will further cooperate with relevant agencies for better living conditions of Rohingyas and host communities in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.

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Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char Island.

On Monday, Naoki attended the handover ceremony of textbooks, held at the learning centre in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

During the ceremony, in total 81,000 textbooks on Myanmar language grammar, mathematics, history, general science and other subjects were handed over from Komori Takashi, Senior Representative of JICA Bangladesh, to Sheldon Yett, representative of UNICEF Bangladesh, in the presence of RRRC Shah Rezwan Hayat.

The learning materials, which Japan funded, will be used for the implementation of Myanmar Curriculum Pilot, which was approved in January 2020, said the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday.

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Ambassador Naoki expressed his delight that the learning centres reopened after more than one and half a year due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“We hope this assistance will contribute to the learning of Rohingya children. I believe it is particularly important for them to learn the language, history and culture of Myanmar so that they may reintegrate to the society after repatriating to their home country,” said the envoy.