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| Ambassador Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations |
Geneva: The UAE condemns the violations of the rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the recent acts of violence against them which included killings, threats and displacing innocent people and burning down their houses and villages, according to Ambassador Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations and other International Organisations.
The UAE, represented by Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, was the first country to call the international community to take steps to protect Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and stop violence against them through supporting initiatives by OIC and calling the UN Human Rights Council to hold an extraordinary meeting on Rohingya Muslims human rights, Al Zaabi said at a meeting for the Ambassadors of the member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss human rights in Myanmar.
At the meeting, the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres gave a presentation on the humanitarian situation of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.
The UAE Ambassador also said the UAE backs a decision by the OIC’s 4th extraordinary summit in Makkah, Saudi Arabia which was held on August 14, to set up a contact team to study the issue of Rohingya Muslims.
Makkah summit is the fourth emergency conference to be convened by OIC since it was formed in 1969.
Source : Gulf News
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| Foreign Ministe Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Abu Dhabi: The UAE has called on the international community to take an immediate action to stop violence against minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Addressing the foreign ministers of the member states of the UN Security Council, Shaikh Abdullah said that the UAE is extremely concerned about the acts of sectarian violence in Myanmar which led to the death of hundreds of Muslims and displacing thousands of people.
“The UAE is deeply concerned about the ethnic violence in Myanmar which claimed hundreds of lives of the Rohingya Muslim minority group and left thousands of them homeless, bringing a renewed chapter of severe suffering,” Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, said in a letter addressed to foreign ministers of the UN Security Council’s member states, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), New Zealand, Canada, Japan and India as well as to Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Nabil Al Araby, Secretary General of the League of Arab States and Dr. Abdullatif Rashid Al Zayani, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Shaikh Abdullah said the international community should urge the government of Myanmar to take adequate measures to cease infringements of Rohingya’s rights and refrain from acts that disregard principles of universal basic human rights and international conventions. He stressed that Rohingya’s basic rights should be respected in a responsible manner. The UAE foreign minister urged the international community to reach a prompt end to this targeting in a way that achieves reconciliation and arrives at a final solution to the crisis.
Source : khaleej Times
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