A/RES/55/75
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2001
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 109
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/597)]
55/75.
Ad hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the
announcement of voluntary contributions to the
Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 1556 A (XV) of 18 December 1960 and 1729 (XVI)
of 20 December 1961 on the convening of an ad hoc Committee of the Whole, under
the chairmanship of the President of the General Assembly, as soon as practicable
after the opening of each regular session of the Assembly, for the purpose of
announcing pledges of voluntary contributions to the refugee programmes for the
following year,
Recalling also that the ad hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the
announcement of voluntary contributions to the Programme of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees has been convened annually, under the
chairmanship of the President of the General Assembly or his or her designated
representative, at United Nations Headquarters, immediately following the debate on
the report of the High Commissioner in the Third Committee,
Noting that the General Assembly, in its resolution 54/146 of 17 December
1999, endorsed the presentation of a unified annual programme budget of the Office
of the High Commissioner,
Noting also that financial requirements under the annual programme budget for
the programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner are presented in the global
appeal issued late in November or early in December each year at Geneva, forming
the basis for pledges in response to the information provided in the global appeal,
Decides, in order to improve and rationalize the funding mechanism following
the adoption of the annual programme budget, that the ad hoc Committee of the
General Assembly may be convened as from 2001 at Geneva, the headquarters of
the Office of the High Commissioner.
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