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10.
Highly appreciates the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh, strongly supported
by the international community, to provide safety and assistance for those who have fled
violence, and encourages the Government of Bangladesh to continue those efforts until
conditions in Myanmar are conducive to the safe, voluntary, sustainable and dignified
return of those who have fled violence;
11.
Urges the Government of Myanmar to immediately address the conditions that lead
to mass displacement, including lack of safety and security, to restore food security, access
to livelihoods, inclusion and public safety, and to ensure respect for the human rights of the
Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State in order to take steps to create an
atmosphere conducive to the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return to their places
of origin in Myanmar of those who have been forcibly displaced, by ensuring that their
human rights, including freedom of movement, will be fully respected and by creating the
right conditions for them to return to their homes and resume their livelihood activities and
income generation without fear, discrimination or restrictions;
12.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure, in conjunction with international
partners and in accordance with international law, the safe, dignified, voluntary and
sustainable return to their ancestral land in Myanmar of all displaced Rohingyas, including
refugees and internally displaced persons, and to ensure the human rights of those who
return;
13.
Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to immediately start a process for the
expeditious verification of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in a time-bound manner
that accommodates many refugees’ and forcibly displaced persons’ lack of documentation;
14.
Welcomes the public commitment of the Government of Myanmar to implement the
recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State to the fullest extent and
urges the Government to implement them swiftly and in their entirety, to allow
reconciliation in Rakhine State and to commence a process of inclusive development
meaningful for all communities, and notes the establishment of the Union Enterprise for
Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine;
15.
Calls upon the international community and regional organizations to provide
support, including humanitarian and development assistance, to the Government of
Myanmar for the implementation of the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on
Rakhine State, including recommendations regarding an inclusive and transparent
citizenship verification process, the provision of documentation for non-citizens and their
equal access to essential social services, including education, health care and freedom of
movement, and on finding sustainable solutions in building intercommunal harmony
towards lasting peace, stability and prosperity for the benefit of the whole population, and
calls upon the Government of Myanmar to provide unhindered access for such
humanitarian assistance;
16.
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 the 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 affected persons of all communities displaced internally within Rakhine State,
taking particular account of the vulnerable position of women and children;
17.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya
crisis, including by addressing the issue of the statelessness of the Rohingya population by
ensuring their equal access to full citizenship and related rights, including civil and political
rights, and, to those ends, to amend the 1982 Citizenship Law to ensure its conformity with
universally recognized principles and to restore the citizenship of the Rohingya population
through an open, fast, voluntary and transparent process of national verification based on
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