Dhaka, June 27 -- Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman on Saturday expressed optimism that a solution to the Rohingya crisis would emerge in the coming days, noting that BNP governments had successfully forced Myanmar to take back previous waves of Rohingya refugees twice in the past.

"I believe that in the coming days we will see a way to solve this problem. You will remember that the BNP government had solved the Rohingya crisis twice before. Everyone knows this, and everyone knows that we will solve it," he told reporters in response to a question during a media briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Briefing reporters on the Prime Minister's visits to Malaysia and China, the Foreign Minister said the Chinese side had assured Ba...