A/HRC/39/L.22 Myanmar to discontinue cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and to deny her access to Myanmar since January 2018, and calling upon the Government to resume its cooperation with the Special Rapporteur without delay, Welcoming further the appointment by the Secretary-General of a special envoy, the cooperation of the Government of Myanmar with the special envoy and the agreement on the opening of an office in Nay Pyi Taw, and commending the work of the special envoy since her nomination, including her recent visits to the region and the her consultations with a range of interlocutors, Welcoming the cooperation extended by the Government of Bangladesh, allowing in this context the Special Rapporteur to visit the country from 29 June to 8 July 2018, while reaffirming the importance of cooperation with the Government of Myanmar in taking all necessary measures to promote and protect human rights in its territory without any discrimination, Expressing deep concern about the ongoing non-cooperation of the Government of Myanmar and its denial of access to the fact-finding mission and the Special Rapporteur, Expressing deep concern also that, despite the signing of the bilateral instruments between Bangladesh and Myanmar and the subsequent formation of the Joint Working Group on the Repatriation of Displaced Myanmar Residents from Bangladesh, no displaced Rohingya person has been able to return to Myanmar to date owing to the fact that no visible effort has been made to create a conducive environment for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of displaced Rohingya, including assurance of nonoccurrence of violence, assurance on rights, including citizenship and mobility, or assurance of accountability of perpetrators and justice for victims, and owing also to the very slow verification process of the list of intended returnees handed over to Myanmar, Expressing concern at the reports of continued intimidation and violence against the remaining Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in Myanmar, Recognizing the initial steps taken by the Government of Myanmar to address the underlying causes of the situation in Rakhine State, including the setting up of the Central Committee for the Implementation of Peace, Stability and Development in Rakhine State and the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, established on 5 September 2016 at the behest of the State Counsellor of Myanmar, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and chaired by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, while regretting that the Government has not yet fully implemented all recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, Acknowledging the establishment of an independent commission of enquiry by the Government of Myanmar on 30 July 2018 as a step towards ensuring accountability for the gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Rakhine State, and expressing hope that the commission of enquiry, unlike previous national investigative mechanisms, will be able to work with independence, transparency and objectivity, Acknowledging with grave concern the statements made by the Secretary-General on 26 February 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 7 March 2018 and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights on 6 March 2018, as well as by the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on 27 February 2018, on the situation of human rights in Rakhine State, in which they referred to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and recalling resolution 59/45-POL of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation adopted by the Council of Foreign Ministers at its forty-fifth session on the establishment of an ad hoc ministerial committee on accountability for human rights violations against the Rohingya, and the recommendations made by the participants in the international consultation meeting on the Rohingya crisis, held on 6 July 2018 in Ankara, Acknowledging the request made by the High Commissioner during the thirty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights of the Rohingya population and other minorities in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, that the Council, in view of the scale and gravity of the allegations, consider making a recommendation to establish a new impartial and independent mechanism, complementary to the work of the fact-finding mission, 2