A/RES/56/135
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 114
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/578)]
56/135. Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in
Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/77 of 4 December 2000,
Recalling also the provisions of its resolution 2312 (XXII) of 14 December
1967, by which it adopted the Declaration on Territorial Asylum,
Recalling further the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the
specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa of 1969 1 and the African Charter on
Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2
Recalling the Khartoum Declaration 3 and the Recommendations on Refugees,
Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa 4 adopted by the Organization
of African Unity at the ministerial meeting held at Khartoum on 13 and
14 December 1998,
Welcoming decision CM/Dec.598 (LXXIV) on the situation of refugees,
returnees and displaced persons in Africa adopted by the Council of Ministers of the
Organization of African Unity at its seventy-fourth ordinary session, held at Lusaka
from 5 to 8 July 2001, 5
Welcoming also decision AHG/Dec.165 (XXXVII) on the fiftieth anniversary
of the adoption of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees adopted
by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African
Unity at its thirty-seventh ordinary session, held at Lusaka from 9 to 11 July 2001, 6
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
3
A/54/682, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
5
See A/56/457, annex II.
6
Ibid., annex I.
2
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