Burma: Armed Conflict

(asked on 19th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken at the United Nations to address the situation in Burma.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 29th June 2018

The UK is actively engaged at the United Nations, seeking to sustain international commitment to resolving the Rohingya crisis and address other issues of concern in Burma. The UK secured a UN Security Council Presidential Statement on the situation in Rakhine in November 2017, and co-led the Security Council's visit to Burma of 30 April-1 May.

The UK co-sponsored the UN Human Rights Council resolutions on Burma in March 2017 (which established the Fact Finding Mission), December 2017 and March 2018, ensuring the Council called for an end to violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by parties to Burma's internal conflict. The UK encouraged the appointment of a new UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Myanmar, who took up her position in June.

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