The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK today welcomed the European Parliament resolution of 20th April 2012 calling on Burmese regime for changes to the 1982 law on citizenship to ensure due recognition of the right to citizenship of the Rohingya ethnic minority. The resolution also urges the Burmese Government to introduce amendments to the 2008 constitution, prior to the 2015 elections that would remove the military's role in civilian politics, notably its seats in both houses of parliament.

Chittagong, Arakan State:  Rohingya political groups had welcomed the European Parliament resolution (2012/2604(RSP)) of 20 April 2012 which called for changes to the 1982 law on citizenship to ensure due recognition of the right to citizenship of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Burma, according to press release of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO).

ယခုသီတင္းပတ္ကုန္တြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္ရန္ရွိသည့္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ အေျပာင္းအလဲ၏ အစကနဦးတြင္သာ ရွိေနေသးၿပီး ကူညီၾကရန္ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း ယမန္ေန႔တြင္ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, greets Burmese President Thein Sein during the East Asia Summit in Bali in November. (Photo: Reuters) WASHINGTON D.C.—Stressing that Burma is just at the beginning of a transition, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Monday that he will visit the Southeast Asian country later this week. This will be his third trip to the military-dominated nation in his role as head of the United Nations.