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N ates the steps taken by the Fund with respect to the United Nations Appeal for Children pursuant to General Assembly resolution 215
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7 of 8 December 1948;
2
Appeals to the various official and private international organizations interested in child welfare to collaborate with the Fund in every pos- 1ible way;
3
Congratitlates the Fund, now in its third year of operations, for its great humanitarian effort in Europe and in the Middle East, now being extended to Asia, Latin America and Africa, in bringing substantial aid of lasting value, through feeding, medical and related programmes, to millions of mothers and children;
4
N ates with concern the existence of children's emergency· needs arising out of war and other calamities as well as the great needs which the Fund's experience has demonstrated as existing in under-developed countries;
.5. N ates with approval the decisions of the Executive Board of the Fund to devote hence-- forth a greater share of the Fund's resources to the development of programmes outside Europe;
6
Expresses gratification at the continued generous support of the Fund by Governments and individuals, amounting to forty million dollars in the past year;
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Draws the attention of Members to the urgent necessity of further contributions to enable the Fund to carry out its programme.
2 December 1949.
319 (IV). Refugees and stateless persons A
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Decides to establish, as of 1 January 1951, a High Commissioner's Office for Refugees in accordance with the provisions of the annex to the present resolution to discharge the functions enumerated therein and such other functions as the General Assembly may from time to time confer upon it;
2
Decides that, unless the General Assembly subsequently decides otherwise, no expenditure other than administrative expenditures relating to the functioning of the High Commissioner's Office should be borne on the budget of the United Nations, and that all other expenditures relating to the activities of the High Commissioner should be financed by voluntary contributions;
3
Requeststhe Secretary-General:
a
To prepare detailed draft provisions for the implementation of the present resolution and the annex attached thereto, to circulate these draft provisions to Governments for comments, and to submit them to the Economic and Social Council at its eleventh session, together with such comments thereon as may have been received from Governments ;
b
To prepare, in consultation with the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, a draft budget for the operation in 1951 of the High Commissioner's Office for Refugees;
4
Requeststhe Economic and Social Council:
a
To prepare, at its eleventh session, a draft resolution embodying provisions for the functioning of the High Commissioner's Office for Refugees and to submit the draft resolution to the General Assembly for consideration at its fifth regular session;
( b) To transmit to the General Assembly at its fifth regular session such recommendations as the Council may deem appropriate regarding the definitions of the term "refugee" to be applied by the High Commissioner;
5
Decides to review, not later than at its eighth regular session, the arrangements for the High Commissioner's Office for Refugees with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 1953.
3 December 1949.
8 See Official Raords of the Economic and Social Council,
Fourth Year,
Ninth Session,
Resolutions, page 58.
0 See Official Records of the fou,-th session of the General Assembly, Annex to the Third Committee, document A/C.3/527.
10 See document E/1392.
11 See Official Records of the fourth session of tlae General Assembly, Annex to the Third Committee, document A/C.3/528.
