A/RES/74/246
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
27 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.3)]
74/246.
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities in Myanmar
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and other relevant
international law and human rights law instruments,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, the most recent of which being resolutions 73/264 of 22 December 2018
and 72/248 of 24 December 2017, and recalling the resolutions and decisions of the
Human Rights Council, the most recent of which being resolutions 42/3 of
26 September 2019, 3 39/2 of 27 September 2018, 4 37/32 of 23 March 2018 5 and
S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, 6 and the presidential statement issued by the Security
Council on 6 November 2017, 7 as well as Security Council resolution 2467 (2019) of
23 April 2019,
Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights in Myanmar, while deeply regretting the decision of the Government
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI).
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/74/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. III.
S/PRST/2017/22.
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