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non-government-controlled areas, and to provide humanitarian assistance, including ageand gender-responsive assistance, as well as the delivery of supplies and equipment, in
order to allow such personnel to perform efficiently their tasks of assisting the affected
civilian populations, including internally displaced persons, and encourages it to grant
access to the diplomatic corps, independent observers and representatives of the national
and international independent media, without fear of reprisals;
22.
Encourages the international community, in the true spirit of interdependence
and burden-sharing, to continue to assist Bangladesh in the provision of humanitarian
assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other minorities until their return to
their places of origin in Myanmar, and to assist Myanmar in the provision of humanitarian
assistance to all affected persons of all communities displaced internally in Myanmar,
including in Rakhine State, taking into account the vulnerable situation of women, children,
older persons and persons with disabilities;
23.
Calls upon the United Nations and encourages other international agencies to
provide all support necessary for the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar to expedite
the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of forcibly displaced Rohingya
Muslims and other minorities from Myanmar, including internally displaced persons,
including through the early implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed by
the Government of Myanmar, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees and the United Nations Development Programme;
24.
Encourages all business enterprises, including transnational corporations and
domestic enterprises, to respect human rights in accordance with the Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights, and calls upon the home States of business enterprises
operating in Myanmar to set out clearly the expectation that all business enterprises
domiciled in their territory and/or jurisdiction respect human rights throughout their
operations;
25.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to follow
up on the implementation of the recommendations made by the independent international
fact-finding mission, including those on accountability, and to continue to track progress in
the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities, and to present a written report thereon to the Human Rights Council at its fortyfifth session, to be followed by an enhanced interactive dialogue, and to the General
Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
26.
Decides to transmit the reports of the independent international fact-finding
mission on Myanmar to the General Assembly, and recommends that the Assembly
transmit the reports to all relevant United Nations bodies, and requests the Chair of the
independent international fact-finding mission to present the reports to the Assembly at its
seventy-fourth session;
27.
Welcomes the commitment of the Secretary-General to fully implement the
recommendations contained in the report entitled “A brief and independent inquiry into the
involvement of the United Nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018” dated 29 May 2019,
and invites the Secretary-General to ensure a system-wide approach in implementing those
recommendations, to ensure that all involvement with Myanmar takes into account and
addresses human rights concerns, and also invites him to include an update on the
implementation of the recommendations in his presentation to the Human Rights Council at
its forty-third session, in accordance with Council resolution 40/29.
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