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15.
Welcomes the final report of the independent international fact-finding
mission,1 and urges the Government of Myanmar and the international community to give
due consideration to the recommendations contained in the reports of the fact-finding
mission;
16.
Reiterates the importance of the full implementation of all recommendations
of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State to address the root causes of the crisis,
including those on the right to a nationality and equal access to citizenship, freedom of
movement, the elimination of systematic segregation and all forms of discrimination, and
inclusive and equal access to health services and education, and birth registration, in full
consultation with all ethnic and religious minorities and persons in vulnerable situations, as
well as civil society;
17.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to make efforts to eliminate
statelessness and the systematic and institutionalized discrimination against members of
ethnic and religious minorities, in particular relating to the Rohingya Muslims, by, inter
alia, reviewing the 1982 Citizenship Law, which has led to the deprivation of human rights;
by ensuring everyone’s right to a nationality and equal access to full citizenship through a
transparent, voluntary and accessible procedure and to all civil and political rights by
allowing for self-identification; by amending or repealing all discriminatory legislation and
policies, including discriminatory provisions of the set of “protection of race and religion
laws” enacted in 2015 covering religious conversion, interfaith marriage, monogamy and
population control; and by lifting all local orders restricting rights to freedom of movement
and access to civil registration, health and education services and livelihoods;
18.
Urges the Government of Myanmar to take all measures necessary to reverse
and abandon policies, directives and practices that marginalize Rohingya Muslims and
other minorities, to prevent the destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, infrastructure
and commercial or residential buildings belonging to all peoples, to ensure that all
displaced persons, including Rohingya Muslims and persons belonging to other minorities,
in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar, including the 128,000 Rohingya and Kaman
Muslims who have been confined in camps in central Rakhine since 2012, can return to
their homes and properties with freedom of movement and unimpeded access to livelihoods
and essential services, to review relevant laws, and to address the root causes of their
vulnerability and forced displacement;
19.
Welcomes the recent extension for one year of the memorandum of
understanding between the Government of Myanmar, the United Nations Development
Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to
associate them to the implementation of bilateral arrangements with Bangladesh on the
return of displaced persons from Rakhine State, and emphasizes the need for the
Government of Myanmar to continue to cooperate fully with the Government of
Bangladesh and with the United Nations, in particular the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, and in consultation with the populations concerned to
enable the safe, voluntary, dignified sustainable and well-informed return of all refugees
and forcibly displaced persons, including internally displaced persons, to their places of
origin in Myanmar, and to give returnees freedom of movement and unimpeded access to
livelihoods, social services, including health services, education and shelter, and to
compensate them for all losses;
20.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar, in line with the bilateral
instruments on repatriation signed by Bangladesh and Myanmar, to take concrete steps
towards the creation of a conducive environment for the voluntary safe, dignified and
sustainable return of the forcibly displaced Rohingya residing in Bangladesh, and to
disseminate authentic information, in partnership with the United Nations and other
relevant actors, on the conditions in Rakhine State in order to reasonably address the core
concerns of the Rohingya, thereby encouraging them to return to their places of origin;
21.
Expresses grave concern at the continuing restrictions on humanitarian
access, in particular in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin and Shan States, calls upon the Government
of Myanmar to ensure full respect for international humanitarian law and to allow the full,
safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel to all government-controlled and
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