—MNA, The Global New Light of Myanmar.
Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu received International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mr. Peter Maurer and party in Sittway on 28 June 2018.
At the meeting, matters related to ICRC and the Myanmar Red Cross Society cooperating to conduct the Red Cross Movement programme to fulfil regional requirements after the violent incidents in the Maungtaw region, the status of ICRC president meeting local communities in Rakhine State to increase assistance, security forces assisting in ICRC works, the union government and the state government conducting the process of receiving returnees, the assessment and resettlement of returnees under the UEHRD programmes were discussed.
During his trip to Rakhine State, the ICRC president visited the mobile Red Cross clinic in Buthidaung Township and the food distribution centre in Maungtaw Township.