A/RES/62/222
United Nations
Distr.: General
28 February 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 70 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/439/Add.3)]
62/222. 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 and recalling the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and
other relevant human rights instruments,
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Reaffirming that all Member States 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 situation of human rights in
Myanmar, the most recent of which is resolution 61/232 of 22 December 2006,
those of the Commission on Human Rights and resolution S-5/1 of 2 October 2007,
adopted by the Human Rights Council at its fifth special session, 3
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Welcoming the statement by the President of the Security Council issued on
11 October 2007, 4
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Recalling that everyone has the right to take part in the government of his or
her country, directly or through freely chosen representatives, the right to freedom
of opinion and expression and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and
association,
Deeply concerned at the situation of human rights in Myanmar, and in
particular at the recent violent repression of peaceful demonstrations, including
through beatings, killings, arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances,
Strongly condemns the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators
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who were exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression and to
peaceful assembly and association, and expresses its condolences to the victims and
their families;
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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A/HRC/S-5/2, chap. I. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third
Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53).
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S/PRST/2007/37; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2007–31 July 2008.
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