Myanmar has again urged Bangladesh to repatriate 2,223 Rohingya refugees as soon as possible. The names were decided out of the 8,000 submitted for repatriation by Dhaka a few months ago. U Ko Ko Naing, director general of the Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Ministry, Myanmar confirmed the numbers. The Myanmar Times reported that a few months back both countries had agreed to repatriate 778 Muslims and 444 Hindu refugees. Myanmar expressed its readiness to begin the repatriation from Bangladesh during a meeting in Dhaka on May 17. According to U Ko Ko Naing the date of the repatriation could not be fixed as it is a complex process. Both sides held discussions about the safety and security of the repatriation process. Providing a conducive environment for the refugees and involving the United Nations agencies in the resettlement were also discussed. Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement in November last year to repatriate an estimated 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a brutal Myanmar military campaign launched in August 2017