The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council has urged the UN Security Council to play a stronger role to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis.
“The UNSC powerful members had enough room to play, but failed to do that,” OIC Assistant Secretary General Hashmi Yousuf said.
The OIC official came up with the statement at a media briefing after visiting Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Friday, reports bdnews24.com.
Yousuf pledged that the OIC will work the international community to ratchet up pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas to their homeland.
The issue will also be discussed at the 45th Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers starting on Saturday in Dhaka, he said.
The high-level delegation reached Cox's Bazar around 11am to visit the Rohingya refugee camps.
The delegation includes foreign ministers, junior ministers from 38 countries.
The delegation will return to Dhaka to attend a dinner hosted by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
On April 28, a high-level 15-member delegation of the UNSC, led by its president Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, visited Cox's Bazar to hear the accounts of Myanmar army’s brutalities that Rohingyas faced.
Following their visit to the refugee camps in no man’s land in Konarpara and Ukhiya’s Kutupalong, the UNSC team promised they will try to thrash out the best possible solution after discussions at the Security Council and will not look away from the crisis.
