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

E/DEC/2019/248View 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 2020.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
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	–
2020	E/DEC/2020/204	Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	146	–

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At its 37th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2019, the Economic and Social Council, 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:

(a) Took note of the requests to enlarge the membership of the Executive Committee, contained in the note verbale dated 3 June 2019 from the Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General,33 the note verbale dated 13 May 2019 from the Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General34 and the note verbale dated 8 November 2018 from the Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General;35

(b) Recommended that the General Assembly, at its seventy-fourth session, decide on the question of enlarging the membership of the Executive Committee from 102 to 105 States.

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