Arakan News Agency
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, welcomed the planned visit of the Security Council delegation to Myanmar later this month.
“Mr. Guterres welcomes the visit of the Security Council delegation to Myanmar and Iraq from April 26 to May 2,” the spokesman for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.
“Guterres hopes that the visit of the delegation to Myanmar will improve the conditions of the Rohingya population in Arakan and that the visiting delegation will show a united position on the crisis.”
“We hope that the visit of Myanmar will improve the situation and reduce the tension faced by the Rohingya, who live there, and see the implementation of the recommendations of the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.”
Since August 25th, the Myanmar army and extremist Buddhist militias have launched a new wave of crimes against the Muslim minority of Rohingya in Arakan province. The ongoing crimes have since resulted in the deaths of thousands of Rohingya, according to domestic and international sources, as well as the displacement of hundreds of thousands.
For decades, the Myanmar government has considered Rohingya Muslims illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as the most persecuted minority in the world. According to the United Nations, 688,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since the beginning of the crimes against them in August and until 27th January.
