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

E/DEC/2017/204View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19e United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, published in 2017.

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2023	E/DEC/2023/354	Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	146	–
2023	E/DEC/2023/313	Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	146	–
2023	E/DEC/2023/302	Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	146	–
2021	E/DEC/2021/208	Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	150	–
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At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 30 September 2016, the Economic and Social, recalling General Assembly resolution 1166 (XII) of 26 November 1957, in which the Assembly 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 by which the membership of the Executive Committee was increased, and recalling also its decision 2016/248 of 26 July 2016, by which it recommended that the Assembly, at its seventy-first session, decide on the question of enlarging the membership of the Executive Committee from 98 to 100 States:

(a) Took note of the request to enlarge the membership of the Executive Committee, contained in the note verbale dated 15 September 2016 from the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General;4

(b) Recommended that the General Assembly, at its seventy-first session, decide on the question of enlarging the membership of the Executive Committee from 98 to 101 States.

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