Bangladesh is planning to organise an international conference in the second half of next year aiming to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis, Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said today.

"We are planning to organise the conference in the second half of next year. It may take place in September," he said while speaking at a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.

Venue and modalities of the international conference will be fixed soon, he said.

Shafiqul also said the country will invite all countries, including the US, EU members, China and India, to join the conference.

UN and its agencies will also be invited to the conference, he said.

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in September while speaking at a high-level discussion on the Rohingya crisis held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, sought the international community's continuous focus on the Rohingya crisis and warned that the whole region, not just Bangladesh, could be in trouble otherwise.

The chief adviser proposed that the international community revisit its approach to the Rohingya crisis.

He said the UN secretary general may convene an all-stakeholders' conference on the Rohingya crisis as soon as possible.

In August 2017, armed attacks, massive scale violence, and serious human rights violations forced thousands of Rohingya to flee their homes in Myanmar's Rakhine State to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

About one million people have found safety in Bangladesh with a majority living in the Cox Bazar's region -- home to the world's largest refugee camp.

The UN has described the Rohingya as "the most persecuted minority in the world".