United Nations
A/RES/69/248
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.3)]
69/248. 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 68/242 of
27 December 2013, those of the Commission on Human Rights, and those of the
Human Rights Council, the most recent of which is resolution 25/26 of 28 March
2014,3
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights
in Myanmar4 and the facilitation by the Government of Myanmar of the visits of his
Special Adviser to the country from 25 August to 2 September, from 5 to
11 October, from 31 October to 6 November and from 29 November to 2 December
2013 and from 18 to 28 January, from 28 March to 10 April, from 26 to 28 June and
from 26 July to 1 August 2014,
Welcoming also the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights
Council on the situation of human rights in Myanmar5 and the access granted to her
during her visit to Myanmar from 17 to 26 July 2014,
1.
Welcomes the continued positive developments in Myanmar towards
political and economic reform, democratization and national reconciliation and the
promotion and protection of human rights, recognizes the scale of the reform effort
undertaken to date, and encourages the Government of Myanmar to take further
steps to consolidate the progress made and address outstanding concerns;
2.
Also welcomes the continued engagement of the Government of
Myanmar with political actors within the parliament and opposition parties, as well
as with civil society, and urges the authorities to continue the process of
constitutional review and reform in order to ensure, inter alia, that the elections to
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
4
A/69/362.
5
A/69/398.
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