New Zealand offers to take in Rohingya migrants


AUCKLAND: New Zealand could take in some of the Rohingya migrants under its resettlement programme, says Prime Minister John Key. 

The country has a quota of 750 refugees every year under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) plan. 

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