Bangladesh's FM Hasan Mahmud meets Ajit Doval.

Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud of Bangladesh on his maiden visit to New Delhi tabled the Rohingya refugee issue and effective repatriation to Myanmar with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Wednesday. Doval, recently returned from Dhaka amidst the crisis involving neighboring Myanmar, held discussions with newly appointed Foreign Minister Mahmud at Sardar Patel Bhavan in the capital. The pair were joined by Md. Mustafizur Rahman, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India as well as other state functionaries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladeshi High Commission to New Delhi.

Hasan Mahmud will hold bilateral talks with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar at Hyderabad House later in Delhi during his three-day visit, reads a statement shared with Vygr. The Minister has engagements scheduled for Thursday and Friday, including an address at the Vivekananda Foundation and discussions in several bilateral meetings.

Hasan Mahmud & Ajit Doval meet

On Tuesday, in the early hours of the morning, High Commissioner Md Mustafizur Rahman, and senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs welcomed Dr. Mahmud and contingent upon arrival from Dhaka to Delhi.

Smita Pant, the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan, was present here to extend a warm welcome. Mahmud was actively involved in student politics, since their college days and went on to become an MP from Chittagong. He is known to be a committed leader of the religious minorities. When holding the portfolio of Minister for Information and Broadcasting, speaking on the Hindus, the religious minority Mahmud said, "No one is a minority."

Bangladesh, which hosts about 1 million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar, is unnerved by the growing flow of anti-junta armed forces from Myanmar as well as regular violence in the garrison state.

Speaking to Vygr News, a former Major General of Bangladesh, familiar with the policy circuit in Dhaka, asserted the next few days are very crucial for the country. How the US, India, and China react to the crisis will determine the stability, he told Vygr News over the phone on Wednesday.