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The Associated Press

Mr. Antonio Guterres

YANGON, Myanmar — A U.N. official has rejected a suggestion by Myanmar's president that the world refugee agency resettle or take care of ethnic Rohingyas who live in the Southeast Asian country.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told reporters Thursday it was not his agency's job.
Myanmar denies citizenship to the Rohingya and considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Some have lived there generations.

President Thein Sein's website said he told Guterres in a meeting Wednesday that the solution to ethnic enmity in Myanmar's western Rakhine state was to either send the Rohingya to a third country or have the UNHCR look after them.

Clashes last month between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslin Rohingya left at least 78 people dead and tens of thousands homeless.

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