(Geneva, 27 June 2025)
The Enhanced Interactive Dialogue (EID) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and with the so-called Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar was organized on 27 June 2025 at the ongoing 59th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva with no representative of the country-concerned in contrary to the fundamental principles of constructive international dialogue and cooperation. The duplicated presentations of the two mandate holders clearly show how such politicized mechanisms misuse the resources of the Human Rights Council.
In its observations on the report of the High Commissioner entitled “Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar”, the Government points out that the views presented in the report cannot be generalized as aspirations of the 53 million people, since the flawed methodology represents only 391 people. Without examining the complexities, ranging from armed movements of different groups, illegal extraction of natural resources, extortion, to ethnic supremacy, misconceptions of the mandate holders only serve as an advocacy tool for armed terrorist groups and their subordinate logistical structures.
The report flatters the so-called Karenni Interim Executive Council, which is subordinate to KNPP and PDF armed terrorist groups that attacked Loikaw University in November 2023 and killed many on the campus, and abducted over 190 university faculty members and students. It also glorifies the so-called Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which attempts to expand the land beyond that delineated by the State Constitution. In addition to killings and violence, they destroyed the religious and historic cultural monuments. Hundreds of thousands of residents have returned homes following the withdrawal of TNLA. It clearly shows that no civilians can live under the control of such brutal armed groups and their subordinate structures.
The mandate holders totally conceal the atrocities committed by the terrorist groups, which have claimed the lives of 9,035 innocent civilians, including 340 children, 1,236 administrative staff, 114 teachers, and 24 healthcare workers since February 2021.
Concerning the humanitarian access following the devastating earthquake on 28 March 2025, Myanmar facilitated entry visas for over 90 personnel from the UN and international organizations during April 2025. 16 search and rescue teams from 13 countries and 28 medical teams from 17 countries extended their support to Myanmar’s earthquake response. Myanmar also mobilized a total of 100,160 persons, including 84,282 military personnel, 9,347 members of police, 6,311 fire fighters, and 220 volunteers. The Tatmadaw has declared a temporary ceasefire from 2 to 22 April 2025 to facilitate swift humanitarian and recovery operations, and further extended it until the end of June 2025.
The Tatmadaw took necessary countermeasures only when endangering civilian lives and property, and to safeguard the territories. But the mandate holders made one-sided allegations against state security forces, though they were fully aware that armed terrorist groups have been active for territorial gains and to initiate terrorist administrative structures.
Provoking member states again to impose unilateral measures on Myanmar is not consistent with international law, and it goes far beyond the mandate of the so-called Special Rapporteur and the Human Rights Council. Irresponsible remarks of the so-called Special Rapporteur neglect far-reaching implications for the general population.
The Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner and with the so-called Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar operates as a platform for reproducing misinformation from terrorist armed groups. Creating false hope and inflaming Myanmar’s diverse society could amount to abetting terrorism.
Myanmar further objects to the Council’s inappropriate act, which gave certain individuals the floor since they do not fall into any category of the speakers who can address the Council. Such inappropriate acts explain why many member states and the public have lost their confidence in the Council.
In light of the above reasons and its principled position of opposing country-specific mandates, Myanmar registers its objection on holding EID on Myanmar at the Human Rights Council and rejects the intrusive statements made by the High Commissioner, the so-called Special Rapporteur and some delegations and the report entitled “Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar (A/HRC/59/57)”.
Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations
GENEVA