The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will open an office in Burma to coordinate aid for the country’s Rohingya Muslims, according the organization’s official spokesperson, Tariq Bakheet. “The fact-finding mission dispatched by Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu signed in Naypyidaw on Tuesday an agreement with the Myanmar government for the establishment of the office,” Bakheet said at a press conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday. The OIC mission will submit its findings to a UN contact group on the Rohingyas during the UN General Assembly meeting later this month.
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