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The resolution was adopted by 130 votes to 9 in the plenary session of the UN General Assembly on Thursday night.
The countries that voted in favor of the new proposal are Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Palau and the Solomon Islands.
Letitia von den Asum, a member of the Kofi Annan Commission to Review the Situation of the Rohingya in Rakhine, wrote in a tweet analyzing the results that the nine countries abstained from voting in 2019 when they adopted another similar proposal. This time they changed position.
China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and Myanmar voted against the resolution as before.
This time too, 25 countries, including India, Japan, South Korea, Bhutan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Nepal, abstained from voting.
On the human rights situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, the resolution expressed deep concern about the human rights violations of other communities, including the Rohingya.
The General Assembly adopted a draft resolution expressing its deep concern over the serious human rights violations committed by the military and security forces, especially in Rakhine, South China and Shan states, according to a press release from the UN. As a result of this torture, 680,000 Rohingya and other minorities have been forced to flee to Bangladesh.
Opposing the proposal, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the UN said his country was opposed to the use of human rights activities for political purposes.
These steps should be avoided. The proposal covers the internal affairs of Myanmar. “
He stated that the human rights situation in Myanmar had improved and that the democratically elected government was taking steps to address the problem.
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