Topic: 2025 – Situation in Myanmar
Country: Nigeria
Delegate Name: Liam Ahmad
Special Political Committee
The Situation In Myanmar
The Federal Republic of Nigeria
Liam Ahmad
Forest Hills Eastern High School
Myanmar’s current crisis is a long-standing conflict between military rule, democratic forces, and ethnic minorities. Since the 1962 coup, Myanmar’s military has continuously interfered with democratic processes, such as the 1990 election, embedding its military into power through the Myanmar constitution in 2008, and defeating the NLD government in 2020. Later, in response to the military seizing the NDL, the previous leaders of the NLD started a nationwide revolt and created the NUG, fueled by continuous resentments among ethnic minorities who were promised autonomy decades ago. As these ethic groups progressed throughout the country, the Junta lost a large amount of its territorial control, forcing the Junta to become dependent on drafting for its military to stay in power. However, despite the conflict, a major earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitudes tore throught the country, killing nearly four thousand people and leaving millions more in need of desperate humanitarian aid. While there is a ceasefire that has been declared, military violence still prevails, preventing any further humanitarian support to victims of the earthquake. Nigeria has dealt with military involvement within the government, in which the military violated civil liberties and caused great economic hardship to its citizens. Nigeria condemns the conflict and sees the continuous violence as a great violation of international human rights and humanitarian law.
Nigeria’s position on Myanmar’s current conflict is that exclusion, systemic discrimination, and silence in the face of injustices have no place in today’s world. Nigeria has avidly spoken on the UN floor about the topic, stating that the crisis is a “great injustice” and that the international community has a “moral and legal duty to act decisively.” Furthermore, Nigeria has taken action by voting in favor of an adopted Resolution (A/RES/79/278), adopted a consensus by the HRC advocating on the human rights situation of Rohingya and other minorities, and global commitment to solving the issue, and has backed the International Court of Justice case on genocide charges against Myanmar’s military.
Nigeria seeks a full halt to military operations, safe access to UN humanitarian aid for minorities, internal monitoring of minorities, and safeguards for displaced individuals. Systematic discrimination is a critical problem that Nigeria believes can be mediated through mainly an immediate declaration of mediation and unrestricted humanitarian aid.
