<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div> <div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Friends in the Media,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Greetings from the COAST Foundation.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Yesterday, a session jointly organized by COAST Foundation, Coxs Bazar CSO NGO Forum (CCNF),NGO Platform Cox's Bazar (NGOP) and Rohingya Human Rights Network in a session during the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week (RHPW) 2023, entitled, “Strengthening Regional Responses to the Rohingya Situation” in Bangkok, Thailand.  Around 70 participants from different countries of Asia Pacific Region and from different organizations participated in the discussions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0px;line-height:12pt"><b><u>The Rohingya crisis, the ultimate solution lies in Myanmar</u></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We kindly request you to consider publishing the news on your esteemed news media.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;margin:0px;text-indent:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></p></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:#ffffff"></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Sincerely</span></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="l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