OIC To Hold Special Meeting On Myanmar Developments

November 05, 2012 15:30 PM      

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov 5 (Bernama) -- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)announced that a special meeting of its Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Djibouti from Nov 15-17 to review the recent developments in Myanmar, Iran's IRNA reported.

In a statement issued on Sunday, OIC said it will not politicise humanitarian work, even though it continues its endeavours to have the Muslim Rohingya minority regain its legal and constitutional rights in the country.

"The organisation'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 politicise humanitarian action.

The organisation of 56 member states, in its statement, expressed readiness to raise the issue of Rohingya's case at United Nations Security Council.

Referring to the deliberate violence against Rohingya Muslims and the efforts to do ethnic cleansing in the country, the statement suggested that the issue be seriously raised at international level.

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