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Rohingya children learn Burmese in Cox's Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh, April 9, 2019. REUTERS / Mohammad Ponir Hossain

The UN delegation visited the camps where more than 900,000 members of this Muslim minority persecuted by the Burmese army live. A visit to reassure also the authorities of Bangladesh, facing a repatriation for the moment impossible.

With our correspondent in Yangon, Sarah Bakaloglou

" The United Nations continues to work to ensure the safe and sustainable return of the Rohingya minority in Burma, " said senior UN officials, including Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for refugees.

Words to reassure a country that in February declared that it would no longer be able to welcome the Rohingyas fleeing neighboring Burma. " Is Bangladesh, receptive to empathizing with a persecuted minority, paying the price? Asked his Foreign Minister at the UN Security Council. But, on the Burmese side, no progress has been made to allow the Rohingyas to return safely to the state of Arakan, where UN access is restricted.

In front of overcrowded refugee camps, Bangladesh is pleading for the displacement of 100,000 refugees to a remote island off the coast of the country. Contacted, the UN did not wish to indicate whether the subject had been raised during the meeting with the Prime Minister of the country this week. This project is in any case criticized by many NGOs, because of the isolation of this island and the threats of flooding.