A/RES/71/172
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
concern the work of the Office of the High Commissioner, and taking into account
national policies, priorities and realities,
Recalling its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991 on the strengthening of
the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations and all
subsequent General Assembly resolutions on the subject, including resolution
70/106 of 10 December 2015,
1.
Welcomes the important work undertaken by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and its Executive Committee in the
course of the year, which is aimed at strengthening the international protection
regime and at assisting Governments in meeting their protection responsibilities;
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 -seventh
session; 2
3.
Welcomes the resumption by the Executive Committee of the practice of
adopting conclusions on international protection, and notes with appreciation the
adoption of the conclusions on youth 3 and on international cooperation from a
protection and solutions perspective; 4
4.
Recalls the high-level segments of the sixty-fourth, sixty-fifth and sixtysixth sessions of the Executive Committee, renews its call upon all States to provide
the necessary support with a view to sharing the burden of the host coun tries, and
underscores the critical importance of development support for host communities;
5.
Notes with appreciation the adoption of the New York Declaration for
Refugees and Migrants 5 and the two annexes thereto at the high-level plenary
meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and
migrants, on 19 September 2016, and encourages States to implement the
commitments made therein;
6.
Notes the significant global and regional initiatives, conferences and
summits undertaken in 2015 and 2016 to strengthen international solidarity with and
cooperation for refugees and other persons of concern, specifically the Brussels
conference on 4 and 5 October 2016, the high-level meeting on global
responsibility-sharing through pathways for admission convened by the Office of
the High Commissioner in Geneva on 30 March 2016, the London conference on
4 February 2016, the pledging conference in Brussels on 21 October 2015, and the
World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on 23 and 24 May 2016, while
recognizing that this summit did not have an intergovernmentally agreed outcome,
and encourages those who participated to implement their commitments made therein;
7.
Reaffirms the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 6 and
the 1967 Protocol thereto 7 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
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3
Ibid., chap. III, sect. B.
Ibid., sect. A.
5
Resolution 71/1.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
7
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
4
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