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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/104
9 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 107
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/639)]
52/104. Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/104 of 16 December 1992, in which it decided to review, not later than at
its fifty-second session, the arrangements for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 1998,
Recognizing the need for concerted international action on behalf of refugees and displaced persons of
concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Considering the outstanding work that has been performed by the Office of the High Commissioner in
providing international protection and material assistance to refugees and displaced persons as well as in
promoting permanent solutions to their problems,
Noting with deep appreciation the effective manner in which the Office of the High Commissioner has
been dealing with various essential humanitarian tasks entrusted to it,
1. Decides to continue the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further
period of five years from 1 January 1999;
2. Also decides to review, not later than at its fifty-seventh session, the arrangements for the
Office of the High Commissioner with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond
31 December 2003.
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997
98-76687