At the meeting President Hamid said: ""The continued influx of Myanmar refugees to Bangladesh and drug trafficking at the border are affecting law and order as well as socio-economic problems in Bangladesh's bordering districts of Cox's Bazar and Banbarban. Both countries should work together to find a fruitful mechanisms for resolving the problem."

Hamid's press secretary Ihsanul Karim told reporters after the meeting that the Burmese side took note of what President Hamid said and would consider what further action was needed.

The Burmese president was told of the serious problems Bangladeshis in frontier areas face because of the huge influx of Burmese citizens since 1991-92. The Burmese government was also urged to speed up the process of verifying the identities of their citizens in Bangladesh so that they could be repatriated as soon as possible.

According to the UNHCR and the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Bangladesh there are more than 200,000 unregistered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and 30,000 registered Rohingya refugees at Kutupalang and Naya Parha refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar.

The government assumes a further 500,000 Rohingyas are living in the country.

Press secretary Ihsanul Karim said: “The Myanmar president has been briefed on these two issues Bangladesh has been facing. Myanmar has been urged to take back its citizens as soon as possible.”

Thein Sein said the problems between the two countries could be resolved in a peaceful manner.

Rohingya Muslims facing persecution at home have been crossing over to Bangladesh for two decades. Until now Burma has not responded to Dhaka’s calls to take them back.

On the Burmese president's official website President U Thein Sein reaffirmed Myanmar’s stance that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must return to Burma of their own volition and satisfy a four-point scrutiny which was agreed upon by both countries.