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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees,
including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this
effect,
Recalling the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the 1951 Convention2 and
the 1967 Protocol3 relating to the Status of Refugees,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;4
2. Also takes note of the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children
and Armed Conflict;5
3. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and
emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate
information on their number and whereabouts;
4. Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification and
tracing of unaccompanied refugee minors;
5. Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with
other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing the
separation of refugee families, conscious of the importance of family unity;
6. Calls upon all Governments, the Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner, all
United Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations
concerned to exert the maximum effort to assist and protect refugee minors and to expedite the return to and
reunification with their families of unaccompanied refugee minors;
7. Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international
organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources
commensurate with the needs and interests of unaccompanied refugee minors and for their reunification with
their families;
8. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law,
and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 19496 and related instruments, while bearing in mind resolution 2 adopted at the twenty-sixth
International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, held at Geneva in December 1995, and to
1
Resolution 44/25, annex.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
3
4
5
6
A/54/285.
A/54/430, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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