Visiting Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne today said her country will continue to extend a strong support to Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue.

The Australian foreign minister’s assurance came when she paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Hotel InterContinental Dhaka this morning.

Marise Payne is now in Dhaka to join the 3rd IORA Blue Economy Ministerial Conference that began in Dhaka today.

Marise Payne highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

She said Australia will make further contributions to the humanitarian issue. “We would like to stay in touch on this issue,” she added.

In this connection, the prime minister said Bangladesh has given shelter to the forcibly displaced Rohingyas on humanitarian grounds.