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9.
Strongly urges the Government of Myanmar to lift the curfew order in
Rakhine State, to ensure freedom of movement and the safety and security of all persons
without discrimination, to grant and facilitate immediate, safe and unhindered and sustained
humanitarian access to United Nations agencies and their partners, and other domestic and
international non-governmental organizations, to provide gender-responsive humanitarian
assistance to all people in need of assistance in order to save lives and preserve human
dignity throughout the country, to grant cooperation partners access without delay to permit
the full resumption of aid programmes, to grant access to independent observers and
representatives of the media, without fear of reprisals, and to safeguard those who report
abuses;
10.
Welcomes the signing by the Governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh of
an “arrangement on the return of displaced persons from Rakhine” on 23 November 2017
and of a “physical arrangement for the repatriation of displaced Myanmar residents from
Bangladesh” on 16 January 2018 as important first steps towards the safe, voluntary,
dignified and sustainable return and repatriation of Rohingya refugees, acknowledges the
cooperation of Bangladesh with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, while urging all parties to invite the Office of the High Commissioner, the
International Organization for Migration and other relevant international organizations to
fulfil their mandates and to participate fully in the Joint Working Group on the Repatriation
of Displaced Myanmar Residents from Bangladesh and in the implementation of the returns
process to ensure effective and sustainable implementation, in accordance with
international law;
11.
Acknowledges the measures taken by the Government of Myanmar to prepare
for the voluntary return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, including through the
Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine,
while stressing the need for the creation of the conditions for safe, voluntary, dignified and
sustainable return, with international oversight, preferably to their places of origin,
providing returnees with freedom of movement, unimpeded access to livelihoods, social
services, including health services, education and shelter, and compensating them for all
losses, acknowledges also the importance of international oversight and monitoring of these
processes, while noting with concern the continued departure of members of the remaining
Rohingya population for Bangladesh, and calls for an end to the intimidation of those
displaced and taking shelter in no man’s land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border;
12.
Strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to expedite the safe,
voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of all internally displaced persons in conditions
of safety and dignity to their homes in Myanmar, including the approximately 120,000
Rohingya internally displaced persons currently in camps near Sittwe, in central Rakhine;
13.
Recognizes the admission by the Myanmar military for the first time of the
extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya villagers in Inn Din village, northern Rakhine State,
while expressing concern that the Government of Myanmar has rejected credible reports of
atrocities, reiterating grave concerns that reporters investigating the Inn Dinn killings have
been jailed, and reiterating its calls upon the Myanmar authorities to cooperate with
independent, credible and effective investigations into all allegations of human rights
abuses and violations, including the gender dimension of such abuses and violations;
14.
Deeply regrets that the Government of Myanmar has to date refused to
cooperate with the independent international fact-finding mission appointed by the
President of the Human Rights Council to establish the facts and circumstances of the
alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces and human rights
violations and abuses in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, including but not limited
to arbitrary detention, torture and inhuman treatment, rape and other forms of sexual and
gender-based violence, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, enforced
disappearances, forced displacement and unlawful destruction of property, with a view to
ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims;
15.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to cooperate fully with the factfinding mission, including by making available information on the terms of reference and
the findings of domestic investigations and other relevant information, and stresses the need
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