OIC to examine Myanmar Muslims genocide during UN meeting

According to the OIC website a ministerial meeting of the Contact Group will be held on the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, 'who are being subjected to persecution, displacement and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar for years'.

The situation has worsened in the past few weeks, which caused more than 300,000 of the Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

The website also wrote, in addition to dealing with the plight of Rohingya Muslims, 'The foreign ministers of the OIC member states are expected to hold a coordination meeting to discuss other issues of interest to the OIC that are on the agenda of the current session of the UNGA', including Palestine and Palestinian refugees, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Yemen, Jammu and Kashmir and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The second meeting of the Contact Group on Muslims in Europe will be held with the aim of promoting understanding and respect between Muslims living in the West and their communities and protecting their rights in light of heightened Islamophobia across Europe.

The OIC Secretary General Al-Othaimeen is also expected to hold meetings with a number of presidents, foreign ministers and high officials from member and non-member states during the UNGA to discuss issues of mutual interest, the website added.

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