United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/172
Distr.: General
24 February 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 100
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/498)]
59/172. Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons
in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/149 of 22 December 2003,
Recalling also 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
Reaffirming that the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 3
together with the 1967 Protocol thereto, 4 as complemented by the Organization of
African Unity Convention of 1969, remains the foundation of the international
refugee protection regime in Africa,
Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General 5 and the United
1.
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 6
2.
Notes the need for African States to address resolutely the root causes of
all forms of forced displacement in Africa and to foster peace, stability and
prosperity throughout the African continent so as to forestall refugee flows, and
calls upon the international community, including States, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and other relevant United Nations
organizations, within their respective mandates, to take concrete action to meet the
protection and assistance needs of refugees, returnees and displaced persons and to
contribute generously to projects and programmes aimed at alleviating their plight
and facilitating durable solutions for refugees and displaced persons;
Welcomes decision EX/CL/Dec.127 (V) on the situation of refugees,
3.
returnees and displaced persons in Africa adopted by the Executive Council of the
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
3
Ibid., vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
5
A/59/317.
6
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/59/12).
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