United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/154
Distr.: General
24 February 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 112
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/503)]
58/154. Follow-up to the Regional Conference to Address the
Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Other Forms of
Involuntary Displacement and Returnees in the Countries
of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relevant
Neighbouring States
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/113 of 20 December 1993, 49/173 of 23 December
1994, 50/151 of 21 December 1995, 51/70 of 12 December 1996, 52/102 of
12 December 1997, 53/123 of 9 December 1998 and, in particular, resolutions
54/144 of 17 December 1999 and 56/134 of 19 December 2001,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Having considered the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, 2
Reaffirming the importance and continuing validity of the Programme of
Action, adopted in 1996 by the Regional Conference to Address the Problems of
Refugees, Displaced Persons, Other Forms of Involuntary Displacement and
Returnees in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and
Relevant Neighbouring States, 3 as a basic guiding tool for future activities,
Recognizing the ongoing acuteness of the migration and displacement
problems in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the
necessity to follow up the Conference,
Recalling the decision of the Steering Group of the Conference at its fifth
meeting to continue activities in the process entitled “Follow-up to the 1996 Geneva
Conference on the Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Migration and Asylum
Issues” for a period of five years,
Recalling also the Work Plan for the Thematic Issues, prepared jointly by the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International
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A/58/281.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/58/12).
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A/51/341 and Corr.1, appendix.
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