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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/103
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)]
52/103. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the activities
of her Office1 and the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its forty-eighth session,2
Recalling its resolution 51/75 of 12 December 1996,
Reaffirming the fundamental importance of the 1951 Convention3 and the 1967 Protocol4 relating to the
Status of Refugees, in particular their implementation in a manner fully compatible with the object and
purpose of those instruments, and noting with satisfaction that one hundred and thirty-five States are now
parties to one or both instruments,
Commending the High Commissioner and her staff for the competent, courageous and dedicated manner
in which they discharge their responsibilities, paying tribute to those staff members whose lives have been
endangered in the course of their duties, and deploring the deaths of staff members as a consequence of
violent events in several countries around the world,
1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/52/12).
2
Ibid., Supplement No. 12A (A/52/12/Add.1).
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
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