FILE PHOTO: United Nations Director for the Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific Haoliang Xu speaks during a news conference in Tacloban city in central Philippines November 9, 2014. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations is preparing to send teams of experts into Myanmar's Rakhine state to begin work aimed at eventually repatriating Rohingya Muslims who fled violence last year, the regional head of the U.N. development agency said on Thursday.
The U.N. agencies for development and refugees struck an outline deal with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's government at the end of May to allow Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh to return safely and by choice.
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