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"THE Government of Myanmar takes note of today’s
decision by the International Court of Justice on ‘provisional
measures’ in the case brought by The Gambia
against Myanmar.
Myanmar has appeared before the Court in this
case to assist the honourable Judges to make the correct
factual findings on the proposition made by The Gambia
that genocide occurred in Rakhine State in 2016-17. As
concluded by the Independent Commission of Enquiry
(ICOE) in its recent report, there has been no genocide
in Rakhine. The Commission found that war crimes had
occurred, and those are now being investigated and prosecuted
by Myanmar’s national criminal justice system. It is important for Myanmar that the Court reaches
a factually correct decision on the merits of the
case. The unsubstantiated condemnation of Myanmar
by some human rights actors has presented
a distorted picture of the situation in Rakhine and
affected Myanmar’s bilateral relations with several
countries. This has hampered Myanmar’s ability to
lay the foundation for sustainable development in
Rakhine.
We should all be aware that one of the historical
functions of the ‘provisional measures’ has been to
protect the Court against possible accusations of
failure take preventive action at the start of a case.
As the Court stated, “the Court’s decision given in
the present proceedings in no way prejudges the
question of the jurisdiction of the Court to deal with
the merits of the case or any questions relating to
the admissibility of the application or to the merits
themselves”...."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Ministry of Information via "The Global New Light of Myanmar"
Date of Publication:
2020-01-24
Date of entry:
2020-01-24
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
Language:
English
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pdf
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4 MB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good