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and to cease the ongoing harassment of the League and other political parties and
allow the reopening of the offices of the League throughout the country;
(d) To release immediately and unconditionally all detained or imprisoned
political prisoners;
(e) To initiate a full and independent inquiry, with international cooperation,
into the Depayin incident of 30 May 2003, as called for by the General Assembly at
its fifty-eighth session;
(f) To cooperate fully with the Special Envoy and the Special Rapporteur in
order to help to bring Myanmar towards a transition to civilian rule and to ensure
that they are both granted without further delay full, free and unimpeded access to
Myanmar and that no person cooperating with the Special Envoy, the Special
Rapporteur or any international organization is subjected to any form of
intimidation, harassment or punishment, and to review as a matter of urgency the
case of those undergoing punishment in this regard;
(g) To consider as a matter of high priority becoming a party to all relevant
human rights instruments;
(h) To take immediate action to implement fully concrete legislative,
executive and administrative measures to eradicate the practice of forced labour by
all organs of Government, including the armed forces, to cooperate with the
International Labour Organization, and to implement fully the recommendations of
the Commission of Inquiry established to examine the observance by Myanmar of
the Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (Convention
No. 29), of the International Labour Organization;
(i) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers and
to extend full cooperation to relevant international organizations in order to ensure
the demobilization of child soldiers, their return home and their rehabilitation in
accordance with recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child; 4
(j) To end the policy of the systematic enforced displacement of persons and
other policies leading to displacement within Myanmar and refugee flows to
neighbouring countries, to provide the necessary protection and assistance to
internally displaced persons and to respect the right of refugees to voluntary, safe
and dignified return monitored by appropriate international agencies;
(k) To immediately ensure the safe and unhindered access to all parts of
Myanmar of the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations so as
to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance and to guarantee that it reaches
the most vulnerable groups of the population, including internally displaced persons
and returnees;
(l) To pursue through dialogue and peaceful means an immediate end to
conflict with all remaining ethnic groups with which ceasefire agreements have not
yet been signed;
(m) To formulate a clear and detailed plan for the transition to democracy,
which includes concrete timing and the involvement of all political groups and
ethnic nationalities in a way that ensures the process is transparent and inclusive;
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See CRC/C/15/Add.237.
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