Washington – Foreign Minister Rex Tillerson condemns reporting the atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and says that those officials – may be the army in the country – will get responsibility.
Tillerson says the stories of the suffering of the Rohingya are “tragic” – and that if these reports are correct, “someone will keep it.”
Tillerson – who is scheduled to visit South Asia next week – urges the Myanmar government to improve humanitarian access to the population in West Rakhine.
Amnesty International has accused the security forces of Myanmar of killing hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel the Rohingya. More than 580,000 refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August.
“We really bear the military leadership of what is happening,” Tillerson said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research center in Washington. “What is the most important for us is that the world cannot stand idly and attest to the atrocities that are reported in this field.”
He also called on Wednesday in the United States and India to expand strategic relations. He clearly criticized China, which it accused of challenging the international standards necessary for global stability.
He said that the world needs the United States and India for a strong partnership. He said that the two countries are sharing in the goals of security, free navigation, free trade and combating terrorism in the Indian Pacific Ocean, and they are “Eastern and Western and Western beacons” for international order that depends on the rules that are increasingly pressured.
India and China have benefited from this, but Tillerson said that India did so while respecting the rules and rules, while China “sometimes” undermined them. To make his point of view, he pointed to the construction of the Chinese island and the wide regional demands in the seas where Beijing has long -term disputes with Southeast Asian neighbors.
Tillerson said: “The provocative measures of China in the South China Sea directly defies the international law and standards represented by the United States and India,” Tillerson said.
He added that the United States is seeking constructive relations with China, but it “will not shrink” from the challenges it raises when “spoils the sovereignty of neighboring countries, and the United States and our friends fade.”
The relations of the United States and India in general have flourished in the past decade, partly due to its common concerns about the rise of China. While President Donald Trump is looking to deepen cooperation with China on addressing the nuclear threat from North Korea, he has also sought a closer relationship with India, which shared our concerns about Islamic extremism.
“In this period of uncertainty and anxiety, India needs a reliable partner on the world stage. I want to explain: with our common values and our vision of global stability, peace and prosperity, the United States is the partner,” Tillerson said.
Tillerson said that the United States wants to help improve military capabilities in India, as well as improving security cooperation between the main democracies in the region, which included Japan and Australia.
Tillerson said that the United States and India are leading regional efforts on combating terrorism. He called for Pakistan in India “to take decisive measures against terrorist groups based on its borders that threaten its people and the wider region.”