A/RES/74/130
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Underlining its strong condemnation of all forms of violence to which
humanitarian personnel are increasingly exposed,
Reaffirming the need for consistency with international law and relevant
General Assembly resolutions, 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 73/139
of 14 December 2018,
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
assisting Governments in meeting their protection responsibilities, and underlines the
importance of durable solutions, the securing of which is one of the principal goals
of international protection, and the significance of the Office’s efforts to promote
addressing root causes, within its mandate;
2.
Endorses the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its seventieth
session; 2
3.
Recognizes the relevance of the Executive Committee’s practice of adopting
conclusions, and encourages the Executive Committee to continue this process;
4.
Reaffirms the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 3 and the
1967 Protocol thereto 4 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 149 States ar e 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;
5.
Urges States that are parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Statu s
of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto to respect their obligations in letter and spirit;
6.
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 the importance of active international
solidarity and burden- and responsibility-sharing;
7.
Welcomes recent accessions to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status
of Stateless Persons 5 and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 6
notes that 94 States are now parties to the 1954 Convention and 74 States 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 United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees with regard to identifying stateless persons, preventing
and reducing statelessness and protecting stateless persons, and urges the Office of
__________________
3
4
5
6
2/9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
Ibid., vol. 360, No. 5158.
Ibid., vol. 989, No. 14458.
19-22225