<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A 27-member delegation including 20 Rohingyas left for Myanmar’s Rakhine on Friday morning to monitor the arrangements made by the Myanmar government ahead of a planned repatriation of Rohingya refugees.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The delegation left Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on a speed boat through the Naf River around 9am on Friday. There are 20 Rohingyas, including three women, a translator and six Bangladeshi officials of different departments.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A 16-member BGB team accompanied them to ensure security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Md Shamsud Douza, the additional refugee relief and repatriation commissioner said the delegation will monitor Myanmar's repatriation arrangement and the situation in Rakhine’s Maungdaw town.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They’ll visit the place where the Rohingya people will live following their repatriation,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The delegation will be back to Tekhnaf by the evening, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, a list of more than 800,000 Rohingyas was sent to Myanmar from the Bangladesh government. The country had identified about 1,140 people in the first phase as a pilot project to repatriate from the list.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, Myanmar voiced objections regarding 429 individuals on the list.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On March 15, a 19-member technical team came to Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, and met 480 members of 177 Rohingya families and returned to Myanmar. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>