Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to start talks on Rohingya refugees


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  • Thursday, 12 Jan 2017

Rohingya Muslim refugees hold a banner and placards during a protest against what organisers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar, in New Delhi, India, December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

YANGON/DHAKA (Reuters) - Myanmar has agreed to begin talks with Bangladesh over an estimated 65,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine State since attacks on border posts three months ago, a senior Myanmar official said on Thursday.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi dispatched a special envoy to Dhaka this week in a thaw in the troubled relations between the neighbours, who each see the stateless Rohingya as the other's problem.

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