The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on the international community to step-in to put an end to the tragedy the Rohingya Muslim minority is suffering currently in Myanmar. ''The UAE is deeply concerned about the ethnic violence in Myanmar which claimed hundreds of lives of the Rohingya Muslim minority group and left thousands of them homeless, bringing a renewed chapter of severe suffering,'' said Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Foreign Minister, in a letter addressed to foreign ministers of the UN Security Council's member states, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), New Zealand, Canada, Japan and India as well as to Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi, Secretary General of the Arab League and Dr. Abdullatif Rashid Al-Zayani, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed said the international community should urge the government of Myanmar to take adequate measures to cease infringements of Rohingya Muslims rights and refrain from acts that disregard principles of universal basic human rights and international conventions. He stressed that Rohingya Muslims' basic rights should be respected in a responsible manner. The UAE foreign minister urged the international community to reach a prompt end to this targeting (of Rohingya Muslims) in a way that achieves reconciliation and facilitates a final solution to the crisis, according to a report of the UAE news agency 'WAM'.
