Dhaka, April 5 -- Foreign relations experts today (Saturday) said follow-up talks should start quickly on Rohingya repatriation, as Myanmar has confirmed out of over 1.30 million of the ethnic minority Muslim people, who took makeshift refuge in Bangladesh where 180,000 are eligible to return.

"It is important that talks were held on the repatriation, but discussions should start immediately on the subsequent steps," former diplomat and foreign relations expert Ambassador Mahfuzur Rahman said, BSS reports.

Rahman, however, said against the backdrop of the unrest in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the homeland of Rohingyas, Dhaka should try "all options" to settle the Rohingya crisis, and "We should not lose our hope."

Dhaka University's inter...