United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/149
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)]
58/149. Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons
in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/183 of 18 December 2002,
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 5 at the ministerial meeting held at Khartoum on 13 and
14 December 1998,
Welcoming decision EX/CL/Dec.46 (III) on the situation of refugees, returnees
and displaced persons in Africa adopted by the Executive Council of the African
Union at its third ordinary session, held at Maputo from 4 to 8 July 2003, 6
Welcoming also decision AHG/Dec.165 (XXXVII) on the fiftieth anniversary
of the adoption of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted
by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African
Unity at its thirty-seventh ordinary session, held at Lusaka from 9 to 11 July 2001, 7
Recalling its resolution 57/2 of 16 September 2002 on the United Nations
Declaration on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and affirming that
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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
On 8 July 2002, the Organization of African Unity ceased to exist and, in its place, the African Union
came into force on 9 July 2002.
6
See A/58/626, annex II.
7
See A/56/457, annex I.
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