Dhaka: As part of a five-day visit to the nation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's chief representative paid a visit to the Cox's Bazar refugee camp on Monday. The organisation has stated that the Rohingya continue to be a top priority.

Hissein Brahim Taha, the secretary-general of the OIC, arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday and met with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

Taha's meetings with Bangladeshi officials included a discussion of the Rohingya situation because the South Asian country is currently sheltering more than 1 million refugees from the persecuted minority, the majority of whom fled Myanmar's Rakhine State in 2017 to avoid a deadly military crackdown.

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One of the OIC's top priorities is the Rohingya. These Rohingya individuals are in pain. After meeting with Bangladesh's Foreign Affairs Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Sunday, Taha told reporters that the people there deserved peace, security, and a better life.

The head of the OIC also urged its members to back Gambia's claim before the International Court of Justice that Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya in Rakhine State violated the Genocide Convention.

Taha thanked the Bangladeshi people and government during his meeting with Hasina "for their relentless efforts to provide shelters, protection, hospitality, and necessary assistance to Rohingya refugees," according to a statement from the OIC.

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Bangladesh has spent an estimated $1.2 billion annually to support the refugees despite not being a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

"We have had them (the OIC) by our side on the Rohingya issue for a very long time. According to Momen, they have taken the initiative to alleviate the plight of the Rohingya.

Taha spoke with members of the Rohingya community in Cox's Bazar during his visit on Monday, according to Mizanur Rahman, the commissioner for refugee relief and repatriation in Bangladesh.

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"(The) OIC secretary-general exchanged views with the Rohingya and listened to their plight," he claimed. Taha vowed to do everything in her power to help the OIC deal with the Rohingya crisis.

The World Food Programme, which claimed it was forced to reduce food aid per person from $10 to $8 a month starting on June 1 due to a lack of funding, is further reducing the rations that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are receiving.