Europeans Press For Action on Rohingya After China, Vietnam Shield Myanmar at UNSC

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-02-05

The UN Security Council discusses maintaining international peace and security and upholding the United Nations Charter during a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, Jan. 9, 2020.
AFP/UN/Mark Garten 

European member states of the United Nations called for Myanmar on Tuesday to take measures to hold to account those responsible for committing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims after the Security Council failed to support an order by the international body’s top court to protect members of the minority group.

Europeans demand Rohingya justice at UN

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James Reinl
04.02.2020
 
Diplomats bash Myanmar’s human rights record after Security Council closed-door meeting

UNITED NATIONS 

Myanmar must start prosecuting those responsible for atrocities against its mostly-Muslim Rohingya minority and uphold decisions by international judges, European diplomats said Tuesday in New York.

Speaking with reporters after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council, Estonia’s Ambassador Sven Jurgenson, said last month’s ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague must be followed.