Dr. Hasan Mahmud, the foreign minister, stated that Dhaka summoned Myanmar's ambassador, Aung Kyaw Moe, on Tuesday to voice its severe concern over the deaths caused by mortar rounds that crossed the border into Bangladesh.
"We strongly protested to Myanmar... This is totally unacceptable," he said on Tuesday afternoon to reporters at the foreign ministry located here.
According to the minister, such incidences of mortar rounds crossing the border from Myanmar into Cox's Bazar and killing people within Bangladesh
While Dhaka has been trying to return forcefully displaced Rohingyas to Rakhain, Rakhine is unexpected and unwelcome.

Director General (DG) of Myanmar Wing Miah Md Mainul Kabir of the foreign ministry had earlier called the ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh to the state guest house Padma early in the morning and conveyed Dhaka's strong protest over the violent occurrences in Rakhine state that had spilled over into the border.

The envoy from Myanmar promised to pass along the message from Dhaka to his authorities.

The minister of international affairs stated: "A total of 229 Myanmar's paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) and some of their family members took refuge in Bangladesh till Tuesday morning."

Over the last three days, BGP personnel have been evacuating from their stations because to reports of intense gunfights between government soldiers and rebels in the country ruled by a junta.
In order to receive better care, a few injured Border Guard Police (BGP) personnel have relocated from Cox's Bazar to Chattogram.

Arakan Army and the army in Myanmar's Rakhine state have been engaged in fierce battle.

Residents of Bangladesh who live close to the border have been terrified by the violence in Myanmar, and many people have fled their houses in search of safety since the sound of the battle has not stopped.

According to the foreign minister, the government of Myanmar has already contacted the authorities of Bangladesh to retrieve its citizens, and at present, the two parties are debating the procedure for retrieving the BGP members.
"Till now, they (Myanmar government) agree to take back their personnel by waterways," he stated.

When asked about the BNP's claim that members of the Myanmar BGP are entering Bangladesh and that tensions are spreading across the border because to Dhaka's lax foreign policy, Hasan Mahmud said that the BNP leaders had become nuts.

"BNP thought that the foreign countries will not welcome the new government of Bangladesh after the polls, but now that all are welcoming and expressing their interests to work with us, BNP is speaking the language of the insane," he stated.

The foreign minister said that he would meet National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Commerce Minister Piush Goyal, and Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on his maiden bilateral travel to India.

"Earlier, we asked India to help with the repatriation of Rohingya. Since both of our nations share borders with Myanmar, we will also talk about the security situation there, Dr. Mahmud said.

The foreign minister is scheduled to return on February 9 after departing here tonight for New Delhi.

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