A/RES/68/141
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2.
Endorses the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its sixty-fourth
session; 2
3.
Welcomes the resumption by the Executive Committee of the practice of
adopting conclusions, and notes with appreciation its adoption of the conclusion on
civil registration;
4.
Appreciates the high-level segment of the sixty-fourth plenary session of
the Executive Committee, welcomes the statement adopted on 1 October 2013 by
States members of the Executive Committee, and calls upon all States to urgently
provide assistance, as identified in the statement, in order to relieve pressure on host
communities;
5.
Welcomes the ongoing implementation, and encourages further
implementation, of pledges made by States at the intergovernmental ministerial
event held in 2011 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating
to the Status of Refugees 3 and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the
Reduction of Statelessness; 4
6.
Reaffirms the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the
1967 Protocol thereto 5 as the foundation of the international refugee protection
regime, recognizes the importance of their full and effective application by States
parties and the values they embody, notes with satisfaction that 148 States are now
parties to one or both instruments, encourages States not parties to consider acceding
to those instruments and States parties with reservations to give consideration to
withdrawing them, underlines, in particular, the importance of full respect for the
principle of non-refoulement, and recognizes that a number of States not parties to the
international refugee instruments have shown a generous approach to hosting
refugees;
7.
Re-emphasizes that the protection of refugees is primarily the
responsibility of States, whose full and effective cooperation, action and political
resolve are required to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to fulfil its
mandated functions, and strongly emphasizes, in this context, the importance of
active international solidarity and burden-sharing;
8.
Welcomes pledges by States to accede to the statelessness conventions, the
1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 6 and the 1961 Convention
on the Reduction of Statelessness, as well as pledges to remove reservations to them,
also welcomes the recent increase in the number of accessions to the two Conventions
and notes that 79 States are now parties to the 1954 Convention and 55 are parties to
the 1961 Convention, encourages States that have not done so to give consideration to
acceding to those instruments, notes the work of the High Commissioner in regard to
identifying stateless persons, preventing and reducing statelessness and protecting
stateless persons, and urges the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to work
in this area in accordance with relevant General Assembly resolutions and Executive
Committee conclusions;
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3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
Ibid., vol. 989, No. 14458.
5
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
6
Ibid., vol. 360, No. 5158.
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