UNSC vows to keep Myanmar situation high on agenda

The United Nations Security Council has expressed its commitment to keep the Rohingya situation of Myanmar high on the Council's agenda during its presidencies in the coming months, reports BSS.

Several members of the Council came up with the pledge at the first open council meeting organised by the Kuwaiti Presidency of the Council on the situation in Myanmar at the UN on Tuesday, according to a press release of Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN received in the city on Wednesday.

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Miroslav Jenca, Assistant Secretary General of Department of Political Affairs (DPA), briefed the meeting about the current state of play with the possible voluntary return of Rohingyas to Myanmar.