UN Chief to Myanmar: Settle Rohingya Status Question

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the government of Myanmar to address the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims ahead of elections planned for later this year. In a meeting at the United Nations, Ban told regional officials that the ongoing communal tensions in the country's western Rakhine state could be "seriously destabilizing." The state has been the site of deadly clashes between the Buddhist community and the mostly Muslim Rohingya, many of whom...

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