OIC To Hold Special Meeting On Myanmar Developments

Ankara, Nov 5, IRNA - Organization of Islamic Cooperation in a statement on Sunday announced that the special meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Djibouti from November 15-17 to review the recent developments in Myanmar. The statement reads: The OIC will not politicize humanitarian work, even though it continues its endeavors to have the Muslim Rohingya minority regain its legal and constitutional rights in the country. "The organization’s efforts to restore the constitutional rights of the Rohingya would go through official diplomatic channels and not through the humanitarian office," the statement said, adding that it is in no one’s interest to politicize humanitarian action. OIC in its statement expressed its readiness to raise the issue of Rohingya's case at United Nations Security Council. Pointing to the deliberate violence against Rohingya Muslims and the efforts to do ethinic cleansing in the country, the statement suggested that the issue should be seriously raised at the international level./end