Dhaka, April 30 -- The government held no discussion on the Rakhine-corridor issue with anybody, said a government spokesman on Tuesday.

"We want to make it categorically clear that the government has not discussed the so-called "humanitarian corridor" with the UN or any other entity. Our position is that should there be a UN-led humanitarian support to the state of Rakhine, Bangladesh would be willing to provide logistics support," said Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the Chief Adviser, on his Facebook wall.

Earlier on Sunday, foreign adviser Touhid Hossain told reporters that Bangladesh had in principle agreed to the idea of the UN to set up an aid corridor from Bangladesh to Rakhine on certain conditions.

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