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reviewing the 1982 Citizenship Law, which has led to the deprivation of human rights; by
ensuring everyone’s right to a nationality and equal access to full citizenship through a
transparent, voluntary and accessible procedure and to all civil and political rights by
allowing for self-identification; by amending or repealing all discriminatory legislation and
policies, including discriminatory provisions of the set of “protection of race and religion
laws” enacted in 2015 covering religious conversion, interfaith marriage, monogamy and
population control; and by lifting all local orders restricting rights to freedom of movement
and access to civil registration, health and education services and livelihoods;
18.
Urges the Government of Myanmar to take all measures necessary to reverse
and abandon policies, directives and practices that marginalize Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities, to prevent the destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, infrastructure and
commercial or residential buildings belonging to all peoples, to ensure that all displaced
persons, including Rohingya Muslims and persons belonging to other minorities, in Rakhine
State and throughout Myanmar, including the 128,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims who
have been confined in camps in central Rakhine since 2012, can return to their homes and
properties with freedom of movement and unimpeded access to livelihoods and essential
services, to review relevant laws, and to address the root causes of their vulnerability and
forced displacement;
19.
Welcomes the recent extension for one year of the memorandum of
understanding between the Government of Myanmar, the United Nations Development
Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to
associate them to the implementation of bilateral arrangements with Bangladesh on the return
of displaced persons from Rakhine State, and emphasizes the need for the Government of
Myanmar to continue to cooperate fully with the Government of Bangladesh and with the
United Nations, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, and in consultation with the populations concerned to enable the safe, voluntary,
dignified sustainable and well-informed return of all refugees and forcibly displaced persons,
including internally displaced persons, to their places of origin in Myanmar, and to give
returnees freedom of movement and unimpeded access to livelihoods, social services,
including health services, education and shelter, and to compensate them for all losses;
20.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar, in line with the bilateral instruments
on repatriation signed by Bangladesh and Myanmar, to take concrete steps towards the
creation of a conducive environment for the voluntary safe, dignified and sustainable return
of the forcibly displaced Rohingya residing in Bangladesh, and to disseminate authentic
information, in partnership with the United Nations and other relevant actors, on the
conditions in Rakhine State in order to reasonably address the core concerns of the Rohingya,
thereby encouraging them to return to their places of origin;
21.
Expresses grave concern at the continuing restrictions on humanitarian access,
in particular in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin and Shan States, calls upon the Government of
Myanmar to ensure full respect for international humanitarian law and to allow the full, safe
and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel to all government-controlled and nongovernment-controlled areas, and to provide humanitarian assistance, including age- and
gender-responsive assistance, as well as the delivery of supplies and equipment, in order to
allow such personnel to perform efficiently their tasks of assisting the affected civilian
populations, including internally displaced persons, and encourages it to grant access to the
diplomatic corps, independent observers and representatives of the national and international
independent media, without fear of reprisals;
22.
Encourages the international community, in the true spirit of interdependence
and burden-sharing, to continue to assist Bangladesh in the provision of humanitarian
assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other minorities until their return to
their places of origin in Myanmar, and to assist Myanmar in the provision of humanitarian
assistance to all affected persons of all communities displaced internally in Myanmar,
including in Rakhine State, taking into account the vulnerable situation of women, children,
older persons and persons with disabilities;
23.
Calls upon the United Nations and encourages other international agencies to
provide all support necessary for the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar to expedite
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