Question 1386 — foreign policy

Summary

Mrs Anissa Khedher alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs about the situation of the Rohingya minority in Burma. Discriminated against since the country's independence, stateless, the Rohingya are considered by the United Nations as “one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world”. On September 10, 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, announced that the situation looked like a classic example of “ethnic cleansing.” In April 2013, the Human Rights Watch report, entitled All you can do is pray, highlighted the failure of the international community to tackle the subject and find long-term solutions. Despite recent international reactions, from Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, on September 5, 2017, from Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and the security policy of the European Union, it should be remembered that China and Russia blocked the adoption of a declaration by the United Nations Security Council on the situation of the Rohingya minority in March 2017 and that a failure of the international community is to be feared. She would like to know whether France intends to take initiatives on this subject and what responses it intends to provide to respond. urgent humanitarian needs.

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