United Nations A/RES/63/245 General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2009 Sixty-third session Agenda item 64 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2008 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.3 and Corr.1)] 63/245. 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, 0F 1F 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 62/222 of 22 December 2007, those of the Commission on Human Rights, and Human Rights Council resolutions S-5/1 of 2 October 2007, 3 6/33 of 14 December 2007, 4 7/31 of 28 March 2008 5 and 8/14 of 18 June 2008, 6 2F 3F 4F 5F Welcoming the statements made by the President of the Security Council on 11 October 2007 and 2 May 2008, 7 6F Welcoming also the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar 8 and his oral presentations, as well as the agreement by the Government of Myanmar to the visit of the Special Rapporteur, for the first time in four years, in November 2007 and then again in August 2008 soon after the appointment of the new Special Rapporteur, and encouraging the continuation of 7F _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. IV. 4 Ibid., chap. I, sect. A. 5 Ibid., chap. II. 6 Ibid., chap. III, sect. A. 7 S/PRST/2007/37 and S/PRST/2008/13; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2007–31 July 2008. 8 See A/63/341 and A/HRC/8/12. 2 08-48549