UN High Level Conference on Rohingya and Minorities in Myanmar - 30 September 2025

Basic Documentation

Address by Dr Mohammad Yunus to the UN General Assembly on 27 September 2024

Letter dated 30 December 2024 to UN Member States from PGA HE Philémon Yang

Letter dated 19 March 2025 to UN Member States from PGA HE Philémon Yang

Draft Resolution UNGA A/79/4767 by PGA on modalities for the HLC on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities

Resolution 79/278 adopted on 25 March 2025 by the UNGA on the Modalities for the HLC 

The voting was 141 in favour, 0 against, 10 abstentions and 42 non-participating.

UN Webcast of the Meeting. This runs from 02.54.00 to 03.36.40. Abstentions recorded by Belarus, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of Korea, Ethiopia, India,  Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Zimbabwe. Differing voting patterns on the 3 draft Russian amendments, The main criticisms from Russia, China and Belarus were lack of consultation in the drafting process, the apparent exclusion of the Nay Pyi Taw Government from participation in the Conference and the inclusion solely for political gain of extraneous material on human rights issues in a Resolution supposedly concerned only with the modalities of the coming Conference.

Statement by HE Mr Kyaw Moe Tun at the UNGA meeting on 25 March 2025

Statement by Edward Heartney, US Minister Counselor to ECOSOC, at the UNGA meeting on 25 March 2025

UN Press Release of 25 March 2025 on the adoption of Resolution 79/278, with some detail about country positions.

UN Civil Society Statement on accreditation for non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations , academic institutions and think tanks - 15 May 2025.

Letter dated 2 July 2025 to UN Member States from PGA HE Philémon Yang [List of CSOs]

Letter dated 15 July 2025 to UN Member States from PGA HE Philémon Yang [Stakeholders]

Letter dated 28 July 2025 to UN Member States from PGA HE Philémon Yang [Requests to Speak]

Commentary

Who will speak for the Rohingya in New York?

Shafiur Rahman: Rohingya Refugee News - 26 April 2025

       "Bangladesh’s new High-Level Conference on Rohingya is pencilled in for 30 September 2025, New

       York. A week ago, the High Representative on Rohingya Affairs and now also the National Security

        Adviser, Khalilur Rahman, swept into the camps to rally the refugees. But only seven days earlier – in

        the very same neighbourhood – Myanmar-linked strongman Dil Mohammed was holding court in

        his freshly painted office. If Khalilur wants a grassroots leadership chosen 'by the youth, for the

        youth,' it  looks  as though the intelligence services already have their champion."

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Why the 2025  UN Conference most deliver on the Rohingya Crisis

Zulfica Niaz Tushar: The Diplomat - 2 July 2025

The UN's 30 September Conference. Who's not on the guest list?