A/RES/68/242
United Nations
Distr.: General
24 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.3)]
68/242. 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 and other relevant
human rights instruments, and recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, the most recent of which is resolution 67/233 of
24 December 2012, those of the Commission on Human Rights, and those of the
Human Rights Council, the most recent of which is resolution 22/14 of 21 March
2013, 3
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights
in Myanmar 4 and the facilitation by the Government of Myanmar of the visits of his
Special Adviser to the country from 13 to 16 January, 3 to 6 February, 21 to 25 March,
25 August to 2 September and 7 to 10 October 2013,
Welcoming also the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in Myanmar 5 and the access granted to him during his visits to Myanmar from
11 to 16 February and 11 to 21 August 2013,
1.
Welcomes the positive developments in Myanmar and the stated
commitment of the Government of Myanmar to continue on the path of political and
economic reform, democratization and national reconciliation and the promotion
and protection of human rights, recognizing the scale of the reform effort
undertaken to date;
Also welcomes the continued engagement of the Government of
2.
Myanmar with political actors within the parliament, civil society and opposition
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
4
A/68/331.
5
A/68/397.
2
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