Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country's northwest.
On Monday, the top UN human rights official issued a report saying the Rohingya have been deprived of nationality and undergone systematic discrimination and severe restrictions on movements.
Members of the 1.1 million group, who identify themselves by the term Rohingya, are seen by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The term is a divisive issue.
The UN human rights investigator, Yanghee Lee, met Suu Kyi in the capital Naypyitaw on her first trip to Myanmar since the Nobel Peace Prize winner took power in April.
Suu Kyi is banned from presidency by the military-drafted constitution because her children have British citizenship.
She holds offices of the State Counsellor and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, but is the de facto leader of the administration.
Feted in the West for her role as champion of Myanmar's democratic opposition during long years of military rule and house arrest, Suu Kyi has been criticised overseas, and by some in Myanmar, for saying little about the abuses faced by the Rohingya.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in the report the Rohingya are excluded from a number of professions and need special paperwork to access hospitals, which has resulted in delays and deaths of babies and their mothers during childbirth.
It was the first time Zeid said these and other long-standing violations could add up to crimes against humanity, an international crime.
Some 120,000 Rohingya remain displaced in squalid camps since fighting erupted in Rakhine State between Buddhists and Muslims in 2012.
Thousands have fled persecution and poverty.
Suu Kyi has formed a committee to "bring peace and development" to the state in May, but its plans are not clear.
On Friday, Myanmar's representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Thet Thinzar Tun, criticised use of "certain nomenclature" by a UN representative as "adding fuel to fire" and "only making things worse".
"For the sake of harmony and mutual trust between two communities, it is advisable for everyone to use the term 'the Muslim community in Rakhine State'," she said, according to the United Nations.
