UNGA president ‘deeply concerned’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya

ARAB NEWS
EPHREM KOSSAIFY
February 03, 2021

Soldiers keep watch near a guesthouse, where members of parliament reside, in the country's capital Naypyidaw on February 3, 2021. (AFP)

• Bozkir is looking to convene a briefing by the special envoy to Myanmar for all member states, in line with a UNGA resolution
• Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener warned of impending humanitarian consequences

NEW YORK: Volkan Bozkir, president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), condemned the military coup in Myanmar and called for “unrestricted humanitarian access to Rakhine state and other parts of the country.”

အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်ကို အပြင်းထန်ဆုံး အရေးယူဖို့ ကုလ သမဂ္ဂမှာ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီးပြော

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ
2021-02-26

ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေနဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်ကို အပြင်းထန်ဆုံး အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းက ဖေ‌ဖော်ဝါရီ ၂၆ ရက် ဒီနေ့ တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

ကုလ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း UNGA မိန့်ခွန်း အပြည့်အစုံ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
27 ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၊ 2021

ကုလ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း UNGA မှာ မိန့်ခွန်းပြော (ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၂၆ ရက် ၂၀၂၁)

သဘာပတိကြီးခင်ဗျား

National Security This Week at the United Nations (October 23-30)

JUST SECURITY

Tim Hirschel-Burns 

October 30, 2020

 Image: Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the signing of a ceasefire agreement by the Libyan parties in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations. 23 October 2020, New York, United States of America. Photo: UN Photo/Mark Garten

Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons to Enter into Force in January

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force on Jan. 22, 2021. Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the treaty on Oct. 24, triggering the treaty’s entry into force after a 90-day period. United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the treaty was the “culmination of a worldwide movement to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons. It represents a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, which remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.” The treaty bans the testing, production, manufacturing, and possession of nuclear weapons.

Rohingya crisis among worst tragedies in modern times, senior Turkish diplomat says

DAILY SABAH

DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL
Diplomacy
Oct 21, 2020

Rohingya refugee children sit on relief supplies at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Oct. 15, 2020. (AFP Photo)

The Rohingya crisis is among the gravest tragedies in modern times, a senior Turkish diplomat said Tuesday.

In a ministerial committee meeting on the persecuted Muslim group held by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran underlined that the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the matter had recorded incidents in Myanmar involving "genocidal intentions." 

UN meeting that began with unity concludes with divisions

StarTribune
EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
September 30, 2020

UNITED NATIONS — This year's U.N. General Assembly meeting began with calls for multilateralism and cooperation — a declaration that the urgency for countries to unite "has rarely been greater." It concluded with a parade of divisive grievances that echoed when the final gavel fell.

Leader after leader in days of speeches delivered virtually stressed the importance of working together to navigate the coronavirus outbreak and the challenges that lie beyond it. As Germany's foreign minister put it, COVID-19 "shows that international cooperation is neither an ideology nor an end in itself. On the contrary, it delivers results, far beyond the actual pandemic."

Dhaka to remind world of Rohingya failure at UNGA

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
September 26, 2020

Bangladesh will bring the unresolved Rohingya crisis before the global leaders today (Saturday) apparently reminding everybody of the failure to find a durable solution to the crisis amid Myanmar's non-fulfilment of repatriation pledge, officials said, reports UNB.

Bangladesh will also seek genuine efforts from the global community to help Rohingyas return to their place of origin in Myanmar's Rakhine State, they said.

PM Hasina to address UN General Assembly on Saturday

Dhaka Tribune
26 September, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually addresses the high-level roundtable event held on the sidelines of the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, September 24, 2020 

Focus Bangla

For the first time in the UN’s history, global leaders are joining virtually the annual high-level session

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually address the 75th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Saturday.

“The prime minister is scheduled to deliver her pre-recorded country statement at the UNGA general debate in the UN Headquarters approximately at 10 am New York time (Bangladesh time 8 pm) tomorrow,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS today.

OIC Committee discusses Rohingya Minority with UNGA President

Baharain New Agency
03 Mar 2020

OIC Committee discusses Rohingya Minority with UNGA President

New York, Mar. 3 (BNA): Saudi Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah bin Yahya Al Muallami, and the permanent delegates of the International Minor Committee on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar met on Monday with Ambassador Tijjani Muhammad the President of the United Nations General Assembly's 73rd session.

UN General Assembly votes to condemn human rights abuses of Myanmar's Rohingya

ABC News
2019-12-28

Photo: A woman reacts as Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in September 2017. (Reuters: Cathal McNaughton, file)

The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention. 

The 193-member world body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favour of the resolution which also calls on Myanmar's Government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆုံးဖြတ်

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )

2019-12-28

■ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင်တွေနဲ့ အခြားလူနည်းစုတိုင်းရင်းသားတွေအပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်တာ၊ ဖမ်းဆီးတာ၊ နှိပ်စက်တာ၊ အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်တာ၊ ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းထားစဉ် သေဆုံးခဲ့တာတွေ အပေါ် ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံက မနေ့က ဆုံးဖြတ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။

Myanmar Rohingya: UN condemns human rights abuses

B B C
NEWS
2019-12-208

Tens of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar for refugee camps in Bangladesh

The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against Muslim Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar.

The resolution also calls on Myanmar to stop the incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities.

UNGA adopts resolution asking Myanmar to ensure safe, sustainable Rohingya return

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
November 15th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organised to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2019 AFP

The draft resolution was passed in UNGA Third Committee by 140 in favour, 9 against including China and 32 abstentions

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution, asking Myanmar to demonstrate genuine political goodwill to ensure the safe and sustainable return of the Rohingyas.

Myanmar’s misleading hyperbole at UNGA

The Daily Star
October 01, 2019
Editorial  

The world must not fall for the country’s fabrications

A destroyed Rohingya village in Rakhine, Myanmar. PHOTO: REUTERS

Myanmar’s minister for the office of the state counsellor, Kyaw Tint Swe’s comment that Myanmar wants to repatriate the Rohingya refugees, made during the general debate at the United Nations General Assembly recently, is preposterous and misleading. Kyaw Tint Swe also said that the country shares “the concern of the international community over the violence that affects communities in Rakhine” and that its “priority now is to expedite repatriation and to create a more conducive environment for verified returnees.”

The 74th UNGA Highlights The ‘Disquiet’ World We Live In – OpEd

eurasiareview
September 29, 2019
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Flags in front of United Nations building in New York City

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened the past week amid simmering tension in the Middle East over recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, which Saudi Arabia and the United States blame on Iran. It also came just days after millions of young activists and their supporters marched in thousands of cities worldwide to demand greater action on climate change.

Union Minister U Kyaw Tint Swe delivers statement at General Debate of 74th Session of UNGA

The Global New Light of Myanmar  
Myanmar News Agency
Date: September 30, 2019

Union Minister U Kyaw Tint Swe delivers the statement at high-level General Debate of the74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly held on 28 September 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters. Photo: MNA 

The leader of the Myanmar delegation and Union Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor,U Kyaw Tint Swe, delivered a statement at high-level General Debate on the fifth day of the74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly held on 28 September 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters.

Turkey requests land from Bangladesh for Rohingya camps

AA
Servet Günerigök
WASHINGTON
25.09.2019

'If you can do that, we are ready to build proper camps for these vulnerable people,' says Turkish FM

Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday asked Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allocate land for building camps for Rohingya refugees.

Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a meeting on Rohingya on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

မေလးရွား ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေရး ေျပာၾကားခ်က္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
28 September 2019

■ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံ တက္ေရာက္ဖို႔ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ မေလးရွား ဝန္ႀကီး ခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာ မဟတ္သီယာ မိုဟာမက္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေျပာၾကား ထားတာေတြကို အာအက္ဖ္ေအ အဖဲြ႔သား ဦးခင္ေမာင္ညိန္းက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Photo: Vladimir SMIRNOV / TASS Host Photo Agency / AFP

Bangladesh - Prime Minister Addresses General Debate, 74th Session

United Nations

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 24 – 30 September 2019). 

PM to place 4-point proposal at UN to solve Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star
BSS, New York
September 25, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Photo: File/Collected

Putting emphasis on a long-term solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she is going to place a four-point proposal at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to this end.

“Let me reiterate the following points which I shall be presenting to the (current) 74th UNGA Session,” she said.

The proposals, she said, are:
1. Myanmar must express clear political will manifested by concrete actions for sustainable return and reintegration of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

2. Myanmar must build trust among the Rohingyas by discarding discriminatory laws and practices and allowing “go and see” visit to the Northern Rakhine by the Rohingya representative

3. Myanmar must guarantee security and safety of the Rohingyas, among others, by deploying civilian monitors from international community in the Rakhine state.

4. International community must ensure that the root causes of Rohingya problem are addressed and atrocity crimes committed against the Rohingyas are accounted for. OIC initiative to take the issue to ICJ is indeed a significant step towards that direction.