Arakan News Agency
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stressed that the issue of the Muslim minority in Myanmar is one of the priorities of the issues of concern to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and calls on the international community to intensify its efforts to stop what appears to be systematic ethnic cleansing against the Muslims Rohingya and the need to intervene to find a humanitarian solution that protects the Rohingya minority from acts of violence and collective punishment which they are exposed to.
This came in the speech of the Kingdom before the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council during the interactive dialogue with the International Mission to Investigate Myanmar, delivered by the Ambassador of the Kingdom at the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al-Wasal.
Ambassador Al-Wasel strongly condemned recent acts of violence against the minority of Rohingya Muslims resulting in the exodus of thousands, and expressed regret that the Government of Myanmar continued to prevent the fact-finding mission from entering Myanmar and to play its role in detecting serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, And expressed regret that Myanmar authorities had prevented humanitarian and relief organizations from reaching Arakan province and providing humanitarian and relief assistance to those affected.
He expressed concern at the rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Myanmar, especially in Arakan, and stressed the Kingdom’s position that the Human Rights Council must address these violations and alleviate the suffering of the Rohingya Muslims. To urge them to cooperate fully with the fact-finding mission and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and to promote tolerance and peaceful coexistence in all sectors of the State and to allow the fact-finding mission to visit the affected areas and allow the entry of humanitarian and relief organizations to provide assistance to those in need.
