Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her call to the international community, including the United Nations, to keep up their pressure on Myanmar to properly implement the Annan Commission report to solve the Rohingya crisis.

The prime minister made the call when visiting UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met her at her Jatiya Sangsad office in the evening.

After the meeting, PM‘s Additional Press Secretary Nazrul Islam briefed reporters.

Sheikh Hasina pointed to the plight of the Rohingyas, particularly women and children, displaced from Myanmar.

Hasina defended her government's move to shift the Rohingyas to Bhashanchar, an island in Noakhali, to keep them away from densely populated localities on security grounds.

Initially, she said, some one lakh Rohingyas will be shifted there and the housing works are in progress to this end.

The prime minister also raised the issue of women empowerment saying that the Leader of the House, the Speaker, the Deputy Leader and the Leader of Opposition are now women in Parliament, which is a unique example in the world.

During the meeting, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said she will submit a report over the plight of Rohingyas to the committee concerned of the UN Security Council following her visit to the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

She said she was really impressed seeing the empowerment of women and the government's measures implemented in this regard under the leader-shin of Sheikh Hasina.