Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

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Geneva
21 June 2023 

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HRC53 - EU Statement - Panel discussion on the measures necessary to find durable solutions to the Rohingya crisis and to end all forms of human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar

 
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
53th session 

UN HRC53: UK Statement for Panel Discussion on Myanmar

GOV.UK
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Rita French
Published21 June 2023

 Speech 

Statement for Panel Discussion on human rights violations against Rohingya & other minorities in Myanmar. Delivered by UK Human Rights Ambassador Rita French. 

Thank you, Mr President.

The United Kingdom thanks the distinguished panellists for their presentations.

We share your deep concern regarding the human rights situation of Rohingya and members of minorities in Myanmar, which has deteriorated since the coup.

Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide Identity History and Speech by Ronan Lee

Applying R2P to Myanmar

GLOBAL CENTRE FOR 

THE RESPONSIBILITIES 

TO PROTECT

26 April 2021
SPEECH

Presentation by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC* to Myanmar Institute of Australia Webinar, 26 April 2021

There can be no doubt whatever that what is now happening in Myanmar, just as what happened with the military’s assault on the Rohingya in 2017, is unequivocally in violation of the Responsibility to Protect, or ‘R2P’, principles unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly sitting at head of state and government level at its 60thanniversary World Summit in 2005, and endorsed thereafter on multiple occasions by the UN Security Council.

Those in Myanmar leading the resistance to the generals are acutely aware of the existence and relevance of R2P, and in particular its third pillar: that should a state ‘manifestly fail’ to meet that responsibility to its own people, it is the responsibility of the wider international community to ‘take collective action in a timely and decisive manner’, including – at the most extreme end of the reaction spectrum – through military intervention, but only if this is endorsed by the UN Security Council.

ဦးေနဝင္း၏ ေနာက္ဆံုး မိန့္ခြန္း

ဦးေနဝင္း၏ ေနာက္ဆံုး မိန့္ခ... by linmm

Remarks by President Biden on the Administration’s Response to the Coup in Burma

THE WHITE HOUSE
SPEECHES AND REMARKS

FEBRUARY 10, 2021 

South Court Auditorium

Eisenhower Executive Office Building

BRIEFING ROOM

1:22 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for being here on short notice. I’m going to be very brief, but I — because the Vice President and I are heading over the Pentagon for an extensive briefing and to make some comments, as we did at the State Department. So I’m going to be going from here to there, and you’ll get me there as well.

I want to say good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to give you an update on the latest regarding our response to the military coup in Burma.

As you know, the assault on Burma’s transition to democracy remains an issue of deep bipartisan concern. We’ve consulted at length, for example, with Senator McConnell, who’s had a very keen interest in this, and his team. And we welcomed their helpful insights.

Transcript: Aung San Suu Kyi's speech at the ICJ in full

Aljazeera
2019-12-12
In a speech that lasted about 30 minutes, Myanmar leader defended her country's military against genocide allegations.

Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar's military against genocide allegations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), amid accusations of mass killings, rape and expulsion of the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.

In her opening statement in front of judges in The Hague on Wednesday, the former human rights icon rejected the case at the United Nations' highest court - which was filed by the Gambia with the support of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) - alleging Myanmar violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.