United Nations
A/RES/60/128
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 39
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/499)]
60/128. Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons
in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 59/172 of 20 December 2004,
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;
Notes with great concern that, despite all of the efforts made so far by the
3.
United Nations, the African Union and others, the situation of refugees and
displaced persons in Africa remains precarious, and calls upon States and other
parties to armed conflict to observe scrupulously the letter and spirit of international
humanitarian law, bearing in mind that armed conflict is one of the principal causes
of forced displacement in Africa;
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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/60/293.
6
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/60/12).
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