Myanmar Mission Geneva

Myanmar’s Response to the Interactive Dialogue with the so-called Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar at the 61st Session of the Human Right Council
(13 March 2026)

The Second Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar, held on 13 March 2026 at the ongoing 61st session of the Human Rights Council with the so-called Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, failed to reflect Myanmar’s perspective, as country was not represented.
Myanmar firmly rejects these politicized, country-specific discussions and the associated report.
While the so-called mandate holder and the sponsors being unable to deny the atrocities committed by the terrorist groups, they deliberately water down the systematic grave violations of those groups.
Democracy could not emerge from such brutal armed groups. The local population has witnessed their inhumane acts, which have resulted in the deaths of 9,628 innocent civilians, including 381 children, 1,321 administrative staff, 124 teachers, and 25 healthcare workers. Consequently, local communities have strengthened cooperation with the Tatmadaw, aiding in the regaining control of several areas temporarily occupied by the terrorist groups. Likewise, over 2,500 young people who joined them due to the influence of extremist politicians are also returning the legal fold.
With peace and stability as Myanmar’s top priority, a total of 149 engagements were conducted, with EAOs that have signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) as well as non- signatories, political parties and peace facilitators, political parties and peace coordinators. Peace talks, forums and youth peace forums were organized to encourage nationwide participation in peace building to ensure a better future for the country.
The multiparty democratic general elections in Myanmar, which were held in three phases from 28 December 2025 to 25 January 2026, covered 80 percent of the country. A total of 4,963 parliamentary candidates contested. It should be noted that the former National League for Democracy party chose not to register, while the other 57 parties contested the recent elections. Out of over 24.22 million eligible voters nationwide, a total of 13.14 million cast their votes in a free, fair and transparent election, representing 54.22 percent turnout.
Despite these efforts, the so-called Special Rapporteur and certain countries continue to discredit Myanmar’s recent general elections which are entirely internal affairs of a sovereign country.
As such, the one-sided Interactive Dialogue is neither constructive nor solution-oriented but rather counterproductive and divisive. Therefore, the Government strongly rejects intrusive comments made by certain countries and offensive recommendations put forward by the so-called Special Rapporteur during the Interactive Dialogue.
While Myanmar is reiterating its strong stance on non-recognition and non-acceptance of the country-specific mandates and any product of the so-called Special Rapporteur, Myanmar registers its appreciation of the delegations that made balanced and constructive statements during the Interactive Dialogue.

Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations Office and other International Organization
GENEVA

Myanmar’s Response to the Interactive Dialogue on the United Nations High Commissioner’s oral update on Myanmar at the 61st Session of the Human Rights Council

(Geneva, 27 February 2026)

The Interactive Dialogue on oral update of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Myanmar was held on 27 February 2026 during the 61st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Contrary to the principles of constructive international dialogue and cooperation as envisaged in resolution A/RES/60/251, the Council organized the one-sided Interactive Dialogue without allowing the participation of the country concerned.

It is disappointing to observe that the High Commissioner made prejudiced and obstructive comments on the General Elections in Myanmar, which is an entirely internal political process of the country. The elections in Myanmar were concluded in three phases from 28 December 2025 to 25 January 2026 in an orderly and peaceful manner, covering 80 percent of the country. Out of over 24.22 million eligible voters nationwide, a total of 13.14 million cast their votes in a free, fair, and transparent election, representing a 54.22 per cent turnout. A total of 51 international observers from ten countries and two international organizations, together with 139 diplomatic observers from 14 countries, conducted electoral observation and monitoring. Furthermore, over 1,100 domestic and over 200 international journalists were granted media access.

Myanmar further notes with serious concerns about the distorted comments and sweeping allegations against the members of the security forces. The actions of armed terrorists responsible for horrific atrocities against civilians and the lawful actions of security forces in response cannot be equated. From 1 February 2021 to 31 December 2025, the PDF terrorist group has claimed the lives of over 9,000 innocent civilians, including 374 children, 1,306 administrative staff, 123 teachers, and 25 healthcare workers.

The public, especially the local people who have experienced the cruelty of the terrorists are increasingly cooperating with the security forces. As a result, the Tatmadaw has regained control of several areas temporarily occupied by the terrorist groups brining stability and normalcy to the locals. Similarly, over 1,600 young people who had taken up arms due to the manipulation of extremist politicians are also returning to the legal fold.

In connection with humanitarian assistance, there are 16 UN agencies in Myanmar with field presence in all states and regions across the country. In 2025, Myanmar granted visas to nearly 500 individuals from UN agencies, ICRC and INGOs. Between February 2021 and December 2025, the Government facilitated travel access for UN agencies and INGOs over 2,400 times. From January to December 2025, over 530 visits of the diplomats to different parts of the country were also facilitated. Furthermore, from 2021 to 2025 December, the Government has facilitated high-level visits of 39 officials in total, including the visits of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in April 2025 and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in September 2025.

Following the forced mass displacement of people from Rakhine State due to coordinated attacks by ARSA, aka Aqamul Mujahideen, in 2017, Myanmar has been working with Bangladesh according to bilateral agreements and arrangements to repatriate displaced persons from Rakhine State. As of 31 January 2026, out of the list of 828,824 individuals provided by Bangladesh in six batches for repatriation, Myanmar has verified 365,730 individuals and found that over 260,000 individuals are former residents in Rakhine State. Myanmar reaffirms its commitment to receive the verified displaced persons once the security and stability in northern Rakhine are restored.

Since Myanmar has peacefully concluded elections with the earnest participation of its dutiful citizens, the people have high expectations for a peaceful, inclusive, and prosperous future. Myanmar hopes the international community will contribute constructively to this journey. On the other hand, Myanmar strongly opposes and rejects unsubstantiated allegations and incitements aimed at undermining unity and eroding trust between state institutions and the public.

Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations
GENEVA

Myanmar’s responses to statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar regarding the election
(12-1-2026,Nay Pyi Taw)

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, issued a press statement on 8 January 2026, with malicious intention to interfere in sovereign domestic affairs, sighting that the first round of voting in the General Election was illegitimate.
The electoral process for the Phase I was conducted under international observation, with a total of 162 international observers, including diplomats from foreign embassies. Media coverage was extensive, involving 215 journalists from 61 international media organisations and 1,177 journalists from 52 domestic media organisations. Similarly, the Phase II included international observers, with over 100 representatives from embassies based in Myanmar.
As a symbol of an inclusive and broad-based electoral process, a total of 4,863 candidates from 57 registered political parties are contesting these elections. The number of candidates demonstrates the people’s desire for peace, stability, and constitutional order.
The results of Phase I were announced transparently on 2 January 2026, and the result of Phase II will be announced in due course. The electoral process will continue as scheduled, with Phase III, covering 63 townships, will be held on 25 January 2026.
Therefore, the allegations made by the so-called Special Rapporteur are one-sided, politically motivated, and risk undermining Myanmar’s stability, and its ongoing democratic transition. The allegations disrespect not only the efforts of the government, political parties but also genuine will of the millions of voters.
Thus, the Government of Myanmar categorically rejects such biased and illegitimate characterizations of its sovereign electoral process.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

နိုင်ငံတကာရွေးကောက်ပွဲလေ့လာစောင့်ကြည့်သူများနှင့် သံတမန်များ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ မဲပေးမှုလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များကို ကြည့်ရှုလေ့လာ

၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၈ ရက်

ယနေ့ ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ် ပါတီစုံဒီမိုကရေစီအထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ပထမပိုင်းတွင် အများပြည်သူများ စနစ်တကျနှင့် လွတ်လပ်စွာ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးနေမှုများကို ကြည့်ရှုလေ့လာရန်အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာရွေးကောက်ပွဲလေ့လာရေးအဖွဲ့ဝင်များနှင့် သံတမန်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ စုစုပေါင်း ၁၃၉ ဦး တက်ရောက်စောင့်ကြည့်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။

International Election Observers and Diplomats Monitor Voting Processes in Myanmar’s General Elections

December 28, 2025

A total of 139 international election observation mission members and representatives of the diplomatic community are present to observe and monitor the orderly and free casting of ballots by the general public during the first phase of Myanmar’s 2025 Multiparty Democracy General Elections, being conducted today, December 28, 2025.

နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဦးသန်းဆွေက ကုလသမဂ္ဂဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ မဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာကိုယ်စားလှယ် Ms. Noriko Takagi အား လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံ
(၇-၁၁-၂၀၂၅ ရက်၊ နေပြည်တော်)

နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဦးသန်းဆွေသည် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဒုက္ခသည်များ ဆိုင်ရာ မဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကိုယ်စားလှယ် Ms. Noriko Takagi အား ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၇ ရက်၊ ၁၀၀၀ နာရီတွင် နေပြည်တော်ရှိ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၌ လက်ခံ တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့သည်။
ထိုသို့တွေ့ဆုံစဉ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ UNHCR က လက်ရှိဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည့် လုပ်ငန်းများ၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် UNHCR အကြား အနာဂါတ်တွင် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်မည့် နည်းလမ်းများနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြသည်။
အစည်းအဝေးသို့ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ သက်ဆိုင်ရာ တာဝန်ရှိသူများ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ ကြသည်။
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U Than Swe, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs receives Ms. Noriko Takagi, UNHCR Representative in Myanmar
(7 -11- 2025, Nay Pyi Taw)
U Than Swe, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs received Ms. Noriko Takagi, UNHCR Representative in Myanmar, at 1000 hrs on 7 November 2025, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.
During the meeting, they exchanged views on matters related to UNHCR’s ongoing activities in Myanmar as well as ways and means for further cooperation between the Government of Myanmar and UNHCR.
Also present at the meeting were respective officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးက အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ကြက်ခြေနီကော်မတီ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ဌာနေကိုယ်စားလှယ်အား လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံ

(၂၂-၁၀-၂၀၂၅ ရက်၊ နေပြည်တော်)

နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီး ဦးကိုကိုကျော်သည် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ကြက်ခြေနီကော်မတီ (ICRC) ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာဌာနေကိုယ်စားလှယ် Mr. Arnaud de Baecque အား ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ်၊ အောက်တိုဘာလ ၂၂ ရက်၊ ၁၃:၃၀ နာရီတွင် နေပြည်တော်ရှိ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၌ လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ပါသည်။

ထိုသို့တွေ့ဆုံစဉ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ICRC က အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည့် လုပ်ငန်းများ၊ ဆက်လက်ဆောင်ရွက်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းများနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ အမြင်ချင်းဖလှယ် ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပါသည်။

အစည်းအဝေးသို့ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ အဆင့်မြင့်အရာရှိကြီးများ ပါဝင်တက်ရောက် ခဲ့ကြကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs receives Resident Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross

(22-10-2025, Nay Pyi Taw)

H.E. U Ko Ko Kyaw, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs received Mr. Arnaud de Baecque, Resident Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Myanmar, at 13:30 hrs on 22 October 2025, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw.

During the meeting, they exchanged views on matters related to existing and further activities of ICRC in Myanmar.

Also present at the meeting were the senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.