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Russia and China blocked a security Council statement of the United Nations for the resumption of fighting in Myanmar, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the British representative to the UN Matthew Rycroft.
“We really introduced the application of pressure, but we failed to reach consensus,” said Raycroft.
According to the Agency, the document said that the organization is concerned about the resumption of fighting in some regions of Myanmar and highlights the necessity of access of humanitarian aid to the affected areas.
In the country, the conflict began due to the fact that as far as gangs from the ethnic Rohingya in the fall of 2016 has committed armed attacks on border posts and military units of Rakhine state, in this connection, the government conducted sweeps of settlements. Killing and wounding civilians in the state.
Representatives of human rights organizations and governments of several Muslim countries, including Malaysia, has called the actions of the government troops of Myanmar in Rakhine state as “genocide of the Rohingya people”.