Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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At its 40th plenary meeting, on 26 July 2006, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolution 1166 (XII) of 26 November 1957, in which the Assembly had requested the Council to establish the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as subsequent Assembly resolutions, in which the membership of the Executive Committee was increased:

(a) Took note of the requests to enlarge the membership of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees contained in the letter dated 8 March 2006 from the Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General 33 and the letter dated 30 May 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General;34

(b) Recommended that the General Assembly, at its sixty-first session, decide on the question of enlarging the membership of the Executive Committee from seventy to seventy-two States.

26 DP/2006/15 and DP/2006/16.

27 E/2006/5.

28 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 14 (E/2005/34/Rev.1-E/ICEF/2005/5/Rev.1).

29Ibid., 2006, Supplement No. 14 (E/2006/34/Rev. 1-E/ICEF/2006/5/Rev. 1 and Add.1), part one.

30 E/2006/6-E/ICEF/2006/3.

31 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 16 (E/2006/36).

32 E/2006/14.

33 E/2006/3.

34 E/2006/82.

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