R17: Myanmar and the EU-ASEAN summit (6th EGP Congress, Antragsgrün)

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Party:	Groen

On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar armed forces (Tatmadaw) staged a military coup,
deposed the democratically elected government of State Counsellor Aung San Suu
Kyi, dissolved the nation’s parliament on claims of election fraud during the
November 2020 elections, and declared a state of emergency. Aung San Suu Kyi and
President Win Myint were arrested and subsequently sentenced to several years in
jail and labour camps on baseless and politically motivated charges. The
military’s Chief of Staff Min Aung Hlaing declared himself president in August
2021 and installed the State Administration Council (SAC) legitimising the
present military junta ruling Myanmar with an iron fist.

Protests against the coup sprung up across the country in what was to be called
the Spring Revolution. Repressive and lethal action by the junta, which came to
a head with the killing of Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing on 9 February 2022, forced the
people to either leave the country or take up arms in what is now seen as a
civil war between the Tatmadaw and the SAC on one side and the civilian National
Unity Government(NUG) with the People’s Defence Force (PDF) on the other.

According to Myanmar’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, more than
15,700 people have been arrested and over 2,300 killed by the junta since the
coup, including around 200 children. The SAC also reinstated capital punishment
in July 2022 – the first time in around four decades – with the judicial
execution of Phyo Zeya Thaw, a close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi, prominent
democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, and hip-hop artist Thaw.

According to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, approximately 7.8 million children are out of school amid over 320
cases of armed occupation of schools and at least 260 attacks on schools and
education personnel, including a school attack by the Tatmadaw in September in
the Sagaing region, killing at least 11 children.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is a member
state, agreed on a five-point consensus on 24 April 2021: an immediate cessation
of violence in Myanmar; constructive dialogue among all parties concerned; the
appointment of an ASEAN special envoy to facilitate mediation of the dialogue
process; humanitarian assistance by ASEAN; and a visit by the special envoy to
Myanmar to meet with all parties concerned in the conflict. Two days after, the
junta unilaterally disengaged with the consensus, denying the visit of the ASEAN
special envoy and continuously escalating the war, hindering essential
humanitarian assistance to those in dire need.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, more than a million people
have been internally displaced since the coup and around 70,000 have fled to
other countries. The Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2022 remains heavily
underfunded despite a dramatic increase in needs compared to 2021. According to
the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), partners are
consequently being forced to make tough decisions about prioritising their
assistance.

With the European Union hosting the 2022 EU-ASEAN summit commemorating the 45^th
anniversary of the establishment of ties, the world is looking at Europe’s next
steps.

The European Green Party:

calls all European governments and the EU to:
- not recognise the State Administration Council, the Tatmadaw or
  their emissaries as representatives of the Republic of the Union of
  Myanmar;
- freeze any remaining asset of the SAC, the Tatmadaw, and any and all
  of its members, remaining in European territory;
- meaningfully engage with the National Unity Government as the
  legitimate representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
  and grant them diplomatic representation in the EU whenever the NUG
  so wishes;
- increase engagement with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
  human rights in Myanmar by providing secondary assistance in
  documenting human rights violations in Myanmar whenever possible;
- increase contributions, if any, to the UN Myanmar Humanitarian
  Response Plan 2022 to ensure that partner organisations on the
  ground continue to distribute much-needed aid in various communities
  across the country;
- abrogate any ongoing military and technological assistance to the
  SAC and the Tatmadaw, including but not limited to a full arms
  embargo, and not to sign any such agreement unless and until the SAC
  is dissolved, all unjustly detained politicians, activists, human
  rights, health, press, and media workers are unconditionally
  released, their charges dropped, and a new civilian government is
  restored through free and fair elections, with the NUG taking the
  interim role;

AM-47-3

, Tabled by: GroenLinks

calls all European governments and the EU to:
- not recognise the State Administration Council, the Tatmadaw or their emissaries as representatives of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar;
- freeze any remaining asset of the SAC, the Tatmadaw, and any and all of its members, remaining in European territory;
- meaningfully engage with the National Unity Government as the legitimate representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and grant them diplomatic representation in the EU whenever the NUG so wishes;
- increase engagement with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar by providing secondary assistance in documenting human rights violations in Myanmar whenever possible;
- increase contributions, if any, to the UN Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2022 to ensure that partner organisations on the ground continue to distribute much-needed aid in various communities across the country;
- abrogate any ongoing military and technological assistance to the SAC and the Tatmadaw, including but not limited to a full arms embargo, and not to sign any such agreement unless and until the SAC is dissolved, all unjustly detained politicians, activists, human rights, health, press, and media workers are unconditionally released, their charges dropped, and a new civilian government is restored through free and fair elections, with the NUG taking the interim role;
- make a plea in the UN to convene an emergency meeting of all Member States that support human rights in Myanmar to launch a focused, coordinated, and strategic initiative to deprive the junta of the weapons, finances, and legitimacy it utilizes to sustain its campaign of violence and suppression of the democratic aspirations of the people of Myanmar, as recommended by the UN special rapporteur for Myanmar;
  immediately halt the sale or transfer of weapons and dual-use technology to Myanmar and ensure that aviation fuel is not transferred to the Myanmar military;
  target those individuals and entities providing arms and munitions to the Myanmar military with economic sanctions;
  degrade the military’s ability to finance its atrocities by sanctioning the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, and other key sources of revenue;

AM-47-9

, Tabled by: Federation of Young European Greens

calls all European governments and the EU to:
- not recognise the State Administration Council, the Tatmadaw or their emissaries as representatives of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar;
- freeze any remaining asset of the SAC, the Tatmadaw, and any and all of its members, remaining in European territory;
- meaningfully engage with the National Unity Government as the legitimate representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and grant them diplomatic representation in the EU whenever the NUG so wishes;
- in particular the permanent members of France and the UK as well as the current European non-permanent members, to propose in the Security Council the referral of the situation in the country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the creation of an ad hoc international criminal tribunal;
- join the case and support the investigations of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and to launch individual investigations under universal jurisdiction, either as individual national governments or via the European Joint Investigation Team, into the allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and to support or coordinate investigations on this;
- increase engagement with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar by providing secondary assistance in documenting human rights violations in Myanmar whenever possible;
- call for the creation, as recommended by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) on 27 August 2018, prior to and until there is a referral to the ICC or creation of a tribunal, of an independent evidence gathering mechanism with functions similar to those of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria via either the UN General Assembly or Human Rights Council;
- increase contributions, if any, to the UN Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2022 to ensure that partner organisations on the ground continue to distribute much-needed aid in various communities across the country;
- abrogate any ongoing military and technological assistance to the SAC and the Tatmadaw, including but not limited to a full arms embargo, and not to sign any such agreement unless and until the SAC is dissolved, all unjustly detained politicians, activists, human rights, health, press, and media workers are unconditionally released, their charges dropped, and a new civilian government is restored through free and fair elections, with the NUG taking the interim role;

AM-47-10

, Tabled by: Federation of Young European Greens

calls all European governments and the EU to:
- not recognise the State Administration Council, the Tatmadaw or their emissaries as representatives of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar;
- continue to lobby with and exert political pressure on ASEAN as done in the past to take more decisive actions and commitments vis-a-vis Myanmar and to deny legitimacy to the junta regime, including the continued barring of the regime from ASEAN summits as done in the 38th-41st summits in 2021 and 2022, the broadening of the ban on political representatives of the junta from ASEAN events and meetings as proposed by Indonesian President Widodo, the establishment of contacts and engagement with opposition groups including the NUG, and the pursuance of concrete, tangible and tougher measures beyond warnings to ensure compliance of the military junta with the 15-point plan agreed upon at the recent 40th and 41st ASEAN summits;
- freeze any remaining asset of the SAC, the Tatmadaw, and any and all of its members, remaining in European territory;
- meaningfully engage with the National Unity Government as the legitimate representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and grant them diplomatic representation in the EU whenever the NUG so wishes;
- increase engagement with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar by providing secondary assistance in documenting human rights violations in Myanmar whenever possible;
- increase contributions, if any, to the UN Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2022 to ensure that partner organisations on the ground continue to distribute much-needed aid in various communities across the country;
- abrogate any ongoing military and technological assistance to the SAC and the Tatmadaw, including but not limited to a full arms embargo, and not to sign any such agreement unless and until the SAC is dissolved, all unjustly detained politicians, activists, human rights, health, press, and media workers are unconditionally released, their charges dropped, and a new civilian government is restored through free and fair elections, with the NUG taking the interim role;

calls on the ASEAN and its Member States to:
- maintain its non-recognition of the State Administration Council,
  the Tatmadaw or their emissaries as the representatives of the
  Republic of the Union of Myanmar;
- refrain from pushing back refugees from Myanmar and instead tackle
  the root causes of their displacement;
- draft a new agreement on the crisis in Myanmar with the National
  Unity Government to pave the way for a peaceful and sustainable
  resolution of the civil war.

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