(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged Myanmar to ease restrictions on "fundamental freedoms," after assessing the plight of the country's Rohingya Muslim community, media reports said Sunday.
The statement came after an OIC delegation, led by Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, spent four days in the country, at the invitation of President Thein Sein, who met them on Saturday, reported DPA
"The Delegation called upon the Government to continue legal reforms, including repealing laws restricting fundamental freedoms," Thein Sein said in a statement carried by The New Light of Myanmar on Sunday
Sectarian violence in the Rakhine State in the west of the mainly Buddhist country last year left at least 167 dead, mostly Rohingyas
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