A/RES/64/238
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.3)]
64/238. 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 63/245 of 24 December 2008,
those of the Commission on Human Rights, and the resolutions of the Human Rights
Council, the most recent of which are 10/27 of 27 March 2009 3 and 12/20 of
2 October 2009, 4
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Welcoming the statements made by the President of the Security Council on
11 October 2007 and 2 May 2008, 5 and the Security Council statements to the press
of 22 May 2009 and 13 August 2009, 6
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Welcoming also the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human
rights in Myanmar, 7 as well as his visit to the country on 3 and 4 July 2009, and the
visits of his Special Adviser on Myanmar from 31 January to 3 February and on
26 and 27 June 2009 respectively, while regretting that the Government of Myanmar
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53),
chap. II, sect. A.
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See A/HRC/12/50, part one, chap. I.
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S/PRST/2007/37 and S/PRST/2008/13; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August
2007–31 July 2008.
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SC/9662 and SC/9731.
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A/64/334.
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