United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/263
Distr.: General
17 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 105 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.3)]
59/263. Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all States Members of the United Nations have an obligation
to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and the duty to
fulfil the obligations they have undertaken under the various international
instruments in this field,
Reaffirming also its previous resolutions on the human rights situation in
Myanmar, the most recent of which is resolution 58/247 of 23 December 2003,
those of the Commission on Human Rights, the most recent of which is resolution
2004/61 of 21 April 2004, 1 and the conclusions of the special sitting of the
Committee on the Application of Standards of the International Labour Conference
of 5 June 2004,
Bearing in mind Security Council resolutions 1460 (2003) of 30 January 2003
and 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004,
Recognizing that good governance, democracy, the rule of law and respect for
human rights are essential to achieving sustainable development and economic
growth,
1.
Welcomes:
(a) The report of the Secretary-General 2 and the interim report of the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar; 3
(b) The personal engagement of the Secretary-General with the situation in
Myanmar and his statement of 17 August 2004, in which he calls upon the
Government of Myanmar to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi immediately and to
engage in substantive dialogue with the National League for Democracy and other
political parties;
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
A/59/269.
3
See A/59/311.
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