Bangladeshi Foreign Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury on Monday said the Myanmar authorities should launch some livelihood schemes like micro-credit for the Rohingya refugees so they become willing to return to their homeland, Bangladeshi news agency UNB reported.

“We would like to see them going back, but they are not willing, ” he told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on his return from Myanmar where the issue was discussed with the Myanmar leaders.

The advisor, who made a four-day visit to Myanmar starting April 25, said he advised the Myanmar authorities to launch some schemes like micro-credit for maintaining livelihood of the Rohingya refugees so they feel encouraged to return from their Cox ’s Bazaar camps in southeastern Bangladesh.

Besides, he said, effort must be made by the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for voluntary return of the refugees.

In mid-1991 to 1992, more than 250,000 Rohingyas entered Cox’s Bazaar from Arakan province in Myanmar. Presently, some 21,600 refugees, staying in two camps in Bangladesh, are awaiting repatriation.