UAGO holds second meeting to review UPR draft

THE Union Attorney-General Office reviewed the draft of the Universal Periodic Review-UPR of Myanmar before sending it to the national-level committee, according to the UAGO Office in Nay Pyi Taw.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Preparation Work Committee on writing the UPR held the second meeting on Friday to edit, amend and add the UPR based on suggestions by the departments concerned, said a news release of the Office of Attorney General.

The amended draft of the UPR would be sent to the national-level commit-tee and it would see advices and suggestions from UN agencies, international non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations.

Speaking at the meeting, Union Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, in his capacity as the chairman of the work committee, called on the departments concerned for providing their progress and developments and for giving suggestions to the working committee.

Myanmar’s UPR reports were submitted twice in 2011 and 2015.

The UPR is a process which makes a periodic review of the human rights records and which carries out in accordance with the implementation of United Nations General Assembly resolution 65/251. Myanmar has submitted the first and the second UPRs to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR in Geneva, Switzerland in 2011 and 2015.

For the second cycle, Myanmar received 281 recommendations from 93 countries. A third cycle will be submitted in 2020 and a National Level Committee led by Vice President U Myint Swe was formed and implementing 12 work sectors.

MNA

Translated by GNLM

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Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar