United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/153 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)] 58/153. Implementing actions proposed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to strengthen the capacity of his Office to carry out its mandate The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 428 (V) of 14 December 1950, the annex to which contains the statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and its resolution 57/186 of 18 December 2002 on the continuation of the Office of the High Commissioner, Appreciating the concerted efforts of the High Commissioner in undertaking consultations with the Secretary-General, the members of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and observers of its Standing Committee, through the process known as “UNHCR 2004”, on how the Office of the High Commissioner could be better equipped to carry out its mandate in the changing context of the global situation, and noting that this is in support and in the context of the goals, objectives and commitments contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 as well as the efforts of the Secretary-General to strengthen the United Nations system, 1. Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on strengthening the capacity of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to carry out its mandate, 2 as called for in resolution 57/186; 2. Reaffirms that international protection and the search for durable solutions for refugees and, as applicable, other persons of concern to the Office of the High Commissioner, which were examined, inter alia, in the Global Consultations on International Protection process and are reflected in the Agenda for Protection, 3 are the core of the mandate of the Office; _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. See A/58/410. 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 12A (A/57/12/Add.1), annex IV. 2 03 50376