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Myanmar postpones UN refugee chief's visit
January 15, 2019

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Myanmar has postponed a planned visit by the UN refugee chief to Rakhine state following renewed fighting between security forces and insurgents.

A spokesman of UNHCR Andrej Mahecic said, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was due to visit Myanmar but authorities scrapped the trip to Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were driven out in a military crackdown.