27 March 2017

News Story: Myanmar rejects UN mission to probe human rights abuse allegations

YANGON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has rejected a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to send a fact-finding mission to the country to investigate alleged human rights abuse by security forces against Muslims in northern Rakhine state.

"The establishment of an international fact-finding mission would do more to inflame rather than resolve the issues at this time," the Myanmar Foreign Ministry said in a statement released late Friday night.

The resolution, tabled by the European Union, was adopted without a vote at the 34th session of the HRC held in Geneva on Friday.

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