United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/74
Distr.: General
12 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 109
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/597)]
55/74.
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 Office 1 and the report of the Executive Committee
of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the
work of its fifty-first session 2 and the conclusions and decisions contained therein,
Recalling its resolution 54/146 of 17 December 1999,
Commending the High Commissioner, her staff and their implementing
partners 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 strongly condemning the
deaths and injuries and other forms of physical and psychological violence
experienced by staff members as a consequence of generalized as well as targeted
violence,
Expressing appreciation, in this year which marks the fiftieth anniversary of
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for the work
accomplished since its establishment in responding to the protection and assistance
needs of refugees and in promoting durable solutions to their plight, and
commending States for their cooperation and support,
1.
Endorses the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its fifty-first
session;2
2.
Strongly reaffirms the fundamental importance and the purely
humanitarian and non-political character of the function of the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees of providing international protection to
refugees and seeking permanent solutions to the problem of refugees, and reiterates
the need for Governments to continue to facilitate the effective exercise of this
function;
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/55/12).
Ibid., Supplement No. 12A (A/55/12/Add.1).