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The United Nations is going to send a delegation to visit Bhasan Char, where the government has developed a housing facility for 100,000 Rohingyas but faced reservations from aid agencies about the move.
The development comes following an impasse of more than a year between the government and the UN regarding the global body s technical assessment of the facility.
The United Nations revealed the decision after a meeting between heads of some UN missions in Dhaka and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Tuesday, a day after newly-appointed UNHCR Representative Johannes van der Klaauw presented his credentials to Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at the foreign ministry.
A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls itself satisfied with the infrastructure it saw on Bhashan Char, though UN human rights rapporteur Yanghee Lee says she is not yet sure the island is truly habitable.