17 See: Government of Myanmar, “National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21,” UN Doc. A/HRC/WG.6/23/MMR/1 (5 August 2015), paras. 133-137. 18 As described by Jose Maria Arraiza and Olivier Wonk, “In order to implement the 1982 Law, Myanmar undertook, starting in 1989, a “national verification” process to determine the citizenship status of its inhabitants and provided them with a colour-coded ID-Card: pink means full citizenship, green naturalised citizenship and blue associated citizenship” (citation above). There are further complex iterations of this system discussed elsewhere. For information on these processes under the USDP Government, see for example: Senior Advocate U Ohn Maung, “National verification process – Part 3,” Friday Times Journal, 2017; Gabrielle Paluch, “Myanmar Begins Controversial Citizenship Verification Process,” 7 July 2014, Voice of America; Lawi Weng, “Winners and Losers of the White Card’s Demise,” 9 March 2015, The Irrawaddy; Nyan Lynn Aung, “Verification program begins but most migrants frozen out,” 23 July 2015, The Myanmar Times. 19 Myanmar expressed support of a recommendation to “Accelerate citizenship verification processes so that populations now deprived of identity documents do not remain in an illegal situation.” Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Myanmar, UN Doc. A/HRC/31/13 (23 December 2015), para. 143.119. See also: Addendum, Views on conclusions and/or recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the State under review, UN Doc. A/HRC/31/13/Add.1 (10 March 2016). 20 Office of the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, “Formation of Appraisal Group to define as Myanmar citizens for an old exiled Myanmar,” Notification 80/2016, 24 October 2016. See also: GNLM, “Implementation Central Committee for Permanent Residency holds coord meeting,” 26 March 2019, pp. 4. 21 Legal scholars from around the country shared these views and detailed analyses with the ICJ in an event held in Yangon in late 2018 (notes on file). See: ICJ, “Myanmar: ICJ convenes workshop on reforming 1982 Citizenship law,” 3 September 2018, https://www.icj.org/myanmar-icj-convenes-workshop-on-reforming-1982-citizenship-law/. See also: U Chit Lwin (Advocate), “Comparative Analysis 1982 Citizenship law,” July 2017, First Time; U Ba Kyain (BA.BL), “Studying Citizenship Law,” September 2000, First Time Printing; U Ohn Maung (Advocate - YanKin), “Application Citizenship,” 16 December 2017, Friday Times Journal. 22 Advisory Commission, (citation above). 23 Upon receipt of the commission’s final report, an official statement read: “[These] recommendations for meaningful and long-term solutions are very welcome. We will give the report our full consideration with a view to carrying out the recommendations to the fullest extent, and within the shortest timeframe possible, in line with the situation on the ground. We hope to set out a full roadmap for implementation in the coming weeks.” Office of the State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, “Statement by the Office of the State Counsellor on the Final Report of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State,” 24 August 2017. See also: Office of the President, ” Establishment of the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State,” Order No.83/2017, 9 October 2017, Republic of the Union of Myanmar. 24 As recently as March 2019, Myanmar’s representative to the UN in Geneva reiterated an ambiguous commitment to “issuance of citizenship” as a priority area for the Government. GNLM, “Myanmar Permanent Representative responds one-sided report of High Commissioner for Human Rights, urges her to provide technical assistance to Myanmar at Human Right Council in Geneva,” 27 March 2019. Privately, senior officials are reported to have expressed reservations about reform: Poppy Elena McPherson and Simon Lewis, “Myanmar rejects citizenship reform at private Rohingya talks,” Reuters, 27 June 2018. The ICJ’s discussions with multiple sources present in various high-level meetings with officials also suggests an inconsistent and incoherent government approach to the issue. 25 A 171-page confidential unpublished report commissioned by a group of humanitarian organizations in Myanmar, produced in 2018, found “no meaningful progress on many of the RAC’s most critical recommendations.” Timothy McLaughlin and Shibani Mahtani, “Myanmar’s Buddhists block Rohingya Muslims from blood supplies, report says,” 24 December 2018, The Washington Post. 26 Statement by the President of the Security Council, UN Doc. S/PRST/2017/22 (17 November 2017). UN General Assembly resolution on the Situation of human rights in Myanmar, A/C.3/72/L.48, para 1(o), (31 October 2017). UN Human Rights Council resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, UN Doc. A/HRC/40/L.19, paras 16 and 17 (19 March 2019). In paragraph 16 of the March 2019 resolution, the Council urged 19