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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/169
24 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 99
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/609)]
49/169.
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 High Commissioner on the work of its
forty-fifth session, 2/ and taking note of the statement made by the High
Commissioner on 9 November 1994, 3/
Recalling its resolution 48/116 of 20 December 1993,
Expressing deep concern at the immense human suffering and loss of life
which have accompanied recent crises involving refugee flows and other forced
displacements, as well as the magnitude and complexity of current refugee
problems, which have made more difficult the accomplishment of the High
Commissioner’s crucial functions of ensuring international protection for
refugees and achieving timely and durable solutions to their plight,
1/
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session,
Supplement No. 12 (A/49/12).
2/
A/49/12/Add.1.
3/
See A/C.3/49/SR.23.
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