A bilateral meeting was held between Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at Baku Congress Center where the NAM Summit is taking place in Azerbaijan on Friday.

During the meeting, Mahathir assured Dhaka that Kuala Lumpur and other Asean member states will do whatever necessary for resolving the Rohingya crisis which is hurting Bangladesh a lot.

“Malaysia and Asean counties will do whatever necessary (to solve Rohingya crisis),” he said.

Briefing reporters, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said Mahathir strongly feels that there was a genocide committed on Rohingyas and this should be brought to book.

Mahathir also talked about the safety and security of the Bangladeshi expatriates living in Malaysia and said that his government would try to take more manpower from Bangladesh.