UK’s Boris Johnson meets Suu Kyi on Rohingya crisis

BANGKOK:

British foreign secretary Boris Johnson met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday to discuss the nation’s Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority and how almost 700,000 of them can be repatriated safely after fleeing to Bangladesh to escape violence perpetrated largely by Myanmar’s military. A statement from Myanmar’s foreign affairs Ministry said Johnson and Suu Kyi discussed repatriation and developments in Rakhine, the western Myanmar state from where the Rohingya have fled over the past few months. Johnson arrived in Myanmar from Bangladesh, where he visited with Rohingya refugees. AP