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

A/RES/57/186No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 104Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, question relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1963–2003
  • 2003A/RES/57/186Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1998A/RES/52/104Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesCompare with previous version
  • 1993A/RES/47/104Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesCompare with previous version
  • 1988A/RES/42/108Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesCompare with previous version
  • 1983A/RES/37/196Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
ConsultationsRefugee Assistance

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
1
Decides to continue the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further period of five years from 1 January 2004;
2
Also decides to review, not later than at its sixty-second session, the arrangements for the Office of the High Commissioner with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 2008;
3
Further decides to consider at its fifty-eighth session proposals of the High Commissioner on the basis of his report, prepared in consultation with the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Secretary-General, regarding the strengthening of the capacity of the Office to carry out its mandate.

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