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(i) To elaborate the road map, which is still lacking in essential elements
such as concrete timing and an adequate plan for the involvement of all political
groups and ethnic nationalities, in a way that ensures that the process is transparent
and inclusive;
Once again urges the Government of Myanmar, as stated in its
6.
resolution 57/231 and in Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/12:
(a)
To ensure the independence of the judiciary and due process of law;
(b) To consider as a matter of high priority becoming a party to those
remaining international human rights instruments to which it is not already party,
and to comply fully with its obligations under international human rights
instruments;
(c) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers,
inter alia, by some armed ethnic groups, and ensure their disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration, to end systematic enforced displacement and
provide protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, to allow the safe
and dignified voluntary return of refugees, and to carry out the appropriate action to
fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General:
(a) To continue to provide his good offices and to pursue his discussions on
the situation of human rights and the restoration of democracy with the Government
and people of Myanmar, including all relevant parties to the national reconciliation
process in Myanmar;
(b) To report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session and to the
Commission on Human Rights at its sixtieth session on the progress made in the
implementation of the present resolution;
(c) To give all necessary assistance to enable his Special Envoy to
implement the present resolution and, in the context of the facilitation role, to
explore any and all possibilities for discharging fully and effectively his mandate;
(d) To continue to give all necessary assistance to the Special Rapporteur of
the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar to
enable him to discharge his mandate fully;
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session.
Decides to continue the consideration of this question at its fifty-ninth
79th plenary meeting
23 December 2003
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