FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees play football at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo/File Photo
YANGON/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees returning to Myanmar will have no explicit guarantees of citizenship or freedom of movement throughout the country, under a secret agreement between the government and the United Nations seen by Reuters.
The UN struck an outline deal with Myanmar at the end of May aimed at eventually allowing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh to return safely and by choice, but did not make the details of the deal public.
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