Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

A/RES/2294(XXII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1968.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1963–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/186

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/186	Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	269	76%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/104	Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	213	—
1993	A/RES/47/104	Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/108	Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	210	—
1983	A/RES/37/196	Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Members Participants Refugee Assistance Refugee Protection

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Requests the High Commissioner to pursue his activities of protection and assistance and to continue to make every possible effort to facilitate the repatriation, local integration or resettlement on a voluntary basis of the refugees who are his concern, bearing in mind the ever-increasing number of refugees in Africa;

Invites the High Commissioner to continue to report to and be guided by the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme with regard to refugee situations, in accordance with the Committee's terms of reference ;

Decides that the High Commissioner be invited to attend the meetings of the Inter-Agency Consultative Board of the United Nations Development Programme and to participate in the preparatory work of the second United Nations development decade;

Urges States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies to lend their support to the humanitarian task of the Office of the High Commissioner and to consider increasing their annual voluntary contributions to the High Commissioner's Programme;

Further invites those Member States which have not yet done so to accede to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees2 and to the 1967 Protocol to the Convention ;8

Further requests the Economic and Social Council to consider as soon as possible the advisability of enlarging the membership of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, in order to give at least one additional African country the possibi 1 i ty of participating in the work of the Committee;

Decides to review, not later than at its twentyseventh session, the arrangements for the Office of the High Commissioner with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 1973.

11 December 1967.

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