The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expressed deep concern regarding continuation of acts of violence, incitement, hate speech and racial discrimination against members of the Muslim community in Myanmar. This came in a speech during the comprehensive periodic review of the human rights situation in Myanmar delivered today by Faisal bin Hassan Trad, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's representative at the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, before the United Nations Human Rights Council. Ambassador Trad called upon Government of Myanmar to grant full citizenship rights of the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, restore voting rights to them, allow their right to determine their ethnicity and to take all necessary measures to prevent sexual exploitation, including human trafficking in addition to cooperation with the international community to ensure return of all Muslim refugees and displaced persons from their homes, to ensure cooperation with all parties and to allow full access for humanitarian aid to them. He also called for amending the Citizenship Act in 1982 to include all religious and ethnic minorities, including the Rohingya, in order to ensure the rights of full and equal citizenship in addition to removal of policies targeting the Rohingya in Rakhine State.
