<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Myanmar will accept the return of around 1,000 Rohingya refugees in a pilot repatriation programme, with a junta spokesman telling AFP Wednesday the resettlement would likely begin by mid-April.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>"We will receive people back according to both countries' agreement... About 1,000 people will be in (the) first batch," Zaw Min Tun told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>