A/RES/69/152
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2.
Endorses the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its sixty-fifth
session; 2
3.
Recognizes the relevance of the Executive Committee’s practice of
adopting conclusions, and encourages the Executive Committee to continue this
process;
4.
Appreciates the convening of the high-level segment on enhancing
international cooperation, solidarity, local capacities and humanitarian action for
refugees in Africa of the sixty-fifth plenary session of the Executive Committee,
welcomes the statement adopted on 30 September 2014 by the States members of
the Executive Committee, 3 commends African States for their hospitality and
refugee-friendly policies in hosting large numbers of refugees over a long period of
time despite their limited resources, calls upon the African States and the
international community to pursue efforts as identified in the statement, and calls
upon all States to act in international solidarity, burden-sharing and partnership with
African States to support international protection of refugees and facilitate durable
solutions;
5.
Also appreciates the follow-up to the high-level segment of the sixtyfourth plenary session of the Executive Committee, renews its call upon all States to
provide the necessary support with a view to sharing the burden of the host
countries, and underscores the critical importance of development support for host
communities;
6.
Reaffirms the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 4 and
the 1967 Protocol thereto 5 as the foundation of the international refugee protection
regime, recognizes the importance of their full and effective application by States
parties and the values they embody, notes with satisfaction that 148 States are now
parties to one or both instruments, encourages States not parties to consider
acceding to those instruments and States parties with reservations to give
consideration to withdrawing them, underlines, in particular, the importance of full
respect for the principle of non-refoulement, and recognizes that a number of States
not parties to the international refugee instruments have shown a generous approach
to hosting refugees;
7.
Re-emphasizes that the protection of refugees is primarily the
responsibility of States, whose full and effective cooperation, action and political
resolve are required to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to fulfil its
mandated functions, and strongly emphasizes, in this context, the importance of
active international solidarity and burden-sharing;
8.
Welcomes recent accessions to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status
of Stateless Persons 6 and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 7
since the intergovernmental ministerial event marking the sixtieth anniversary of the
1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of
the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as well as pledges to
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3
Ibid., annex I.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
5
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
6
Ibid., vol. 360, No. 5158.
7
Ibid., vol. 989, No. 14458.
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