A/RES/78/219
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.3, para. 33)]
78/219.
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,
Recalling that States have the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil
human rights,
Recalling also its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, the most recent of which being resolutions 77/227 of 15 December 2022,
76/180 of 16 December 2021, 75/287 of 18 June 2021, 75/238 of 31 December 2020,
74/246 of 27 December 2019, 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 53/26 of 14 July 2023, 3 52/31 of
4 April 2023, 4 50/3 of 7 July 2022, 5 49/23 of 1 April 2022, 6 47/1 of 12 July 2021, 7
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/78/53), chap. VII, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/77/53), chap. VIII, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. VI, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/76/53), chap. VII, sect. A.
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