A/RES/59/169 United Nations Distr.: General 22 February 2005 General Assembly Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 100 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/498)] 59/169. Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The General Assembly, Taking note of Economic and Social Council decision 2004/238 of 21 July 2004 concerning the enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Taking note also of the requests regarding the enlargement of the Executive Committee contained in the letter dated 23 March 2004 from the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations addressed to the SecretaryGeneral 1 and the letter dated 2 June 2004 from the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, 2 1. Decides to increase the number of members of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from sixty-six to sixty-eight States; Requests the Economic and Social Council to elect the additional 2. members at its resumed organizational session for 2005. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 _______________ 1 2 04-48640 E/2004/49. E/2004/76.