A/RES/55/77
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 109
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/597)]
55/77.
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in
Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 54/147 of 17 December 1999,
Recalling also the provisions of its resolution 2312 (XXII) of 14 December
1967, by which it adopted the Declaration on Territorial Asylum,
Recalling further 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
Recalling the Khartoum Declaration 3 and the Recommendations on Refugees,
Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa 4 adopted by the Organization
of African Unity at the ministerial meeting held at Khartoum on 13 and
14 December 1998,
Welcoming decision CM/Dec.531 (LXXII) on the situation of refugees,
returnees and displaced persons in Africa adopted by the Council of Ministers of the
Organization of African Unity at its seventy-second ordinary session, held at Lomé
from 6 to 8 July 2000, 5
Welcoming also the convening by the Organization of African Unity and the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees of the Special
Meeting of Governmental and Non-Governmental Technical Experts at Conakry
from 27 to 29 March 2000, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the
adoption of the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the specific
aspects of refugee problems in Africa, commending the comprehensive
implementation plan adopted by the Special Meeting, and noting its endorsement by
1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
3
A/54/682, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
5
See A/55/286, annex I.
2
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