A/RES/73/264
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.3)]
73/264.
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2 the Convention on
the Rights of the Child 3 and other relevant international law and human rights law
instruments,
Noting the importance of the role of regional organizations in efforts to achieve
pacific settlement of local disputes, as stipulated in Chapter VIII of the Charter,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, the most recent of which being resolution 72/248 of 24 December 2017,
and recalling the resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council, the most
recent of which being resolutions 39/2 of 27 September 2018, 4 37/32 of 23 March
2018 5 and S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, 6 and the statement by the President of the
Security Council issued on 6 November 2017, 7
Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary-General of a Special Envoy on
Myanmar, the cooperation of the Government of Myanmar with the Special Envoy
and the agreement on the opening of the office of the Special Envoy in Nay Pyi Taw,
and commending the work of the Special Envoy since her appointment, including her
recent visits to the region and her consultations with a range of interlocutors,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/73/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. III.
S/PRST/2017/22.
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