The US President 'didn't make any comment about refugees'

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, centre, meets Rohingya Muslims at Kutupalong refugee camp, near the border town of Ukhia, Bangladesh, last week. Photo / AP

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she spoke to US President Donald Trump about the Rohingya Muslims flooding her country from Burma, but says she's not expecting any help from him.

As Trump left an event he hosted at the United Nations on reforming the world body, Hasina said she stopped him for a few minutes.

"He just asked how is Bangladesh? I said 'it's doing very well, but the only problem that we have is the refugees from Myanmar (Burma)'," Hasina said in an interview.

"But he didn't make any comment about refugees."

A Burma military response to insurgent attacks last month in the country's Rakhine state sent more than 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh, escaping what the UN says is ethnic cleansing.

The Burma Government says about 400 people have been killed in the fighting.

Hasina, who will address the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly later this week, said Trump's stance on refugees is clear, so it's not worth asking him for help with the Rohingya Muslim refugees.

"Already America declared that they will not allow any refugees," she said.

"What I can expect from them, and especially (the) President. He already declared his mind ... so why I should ask?"

Hasina added: "Bangladesh is not a rich country ... but if we can feed 160 million people, another 500 or 700,000 people, we can do it."

A senior White House official was unaware of the exchange but said Trump was deeply interested in the subject and that "he would definitely engage if it were brought up".

Shortly after taking office in January, Trump tried to put a 120-day halt on the US refugee programme, bar Syrian refugees indefinitely and impose a 90-day suspension on people from six predominantly Muslim countries.

- Reuters, AAP