A/HRC/S-27/3 I. Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh special session S-27/1. Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and their Optional Protocols, as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and other relevant international human rights law, Recalling the General Assembly resolutions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, and the most recent text adopted by the Third Committee on 16 November 2017,1 as well as those of the Human Rights Council, the most recent of which being resolution 34/22 of 24 March 2017, in which the Council decided to dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission to establish the facts and circumstances of the alleged recent human rights violations and abuses, and Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017, in which the Council extended the mandate of the fact-finding mission until its thirty-ninth session, and reaffirming Council resolution 29/21 of 3 July 2015, Recalling also the statement by the President of the Security Council of 6 November 2017,2 Stressing that States have the primary responsibility for the respect, promotion and protection of human rights, Noting the importance of the role of regional organizations in efforts to achieve pacific settlement of local disputes as stipulated in Chapter VIII of the Charter, Expressing grave concern at the recent reports of serious violations and abuses of human rights in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, as well as in Kachin State and northern Shan State, Recalling the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including the report submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session3 and the report submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session,4 welcoming the cooperation of the Government of Myanmar with the Special Rapporteur, including the facilitation of her visits to some parts of the country in June and July 2016, January 2017 and, most recently, July 2017, and echoing her concerns regarding limitations on access, Welcoming the oral update presented to the Human Rights Council by the factfinding mission in September 2017, 1. 2. 3. 4. 2 See A/72/439/Add.3. S/PRST/2017/22. A/HRC/34/67. A/72/382.