YANGON - Myanmar's foreign ministry on Tuesday denounced a United Nations report that urged world leaders to cut ties with military-linked companies and impose an arms embargo over the Rohingya crisis, saying it was intended to harm the country.
More than 730,000 Rohingya, members of a persecuted Muslim minority, fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh amid a military-led crackdown in August 2017 that the UN and Western countries have said included mass killings and gang-rapes. Any foreign business activity involving the army and its conglomerates"posts a high risk of contributing to, or being linked to, violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law", the report said.
"The Government of Myanmar categorically rejects the latest report and its conclusions," the ministry said in a statement, calling the report an"action intended to harm the interests of Myanmar and its people".
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