United Nations A/RES/57/186 General Assembly Distr.: General 4 February 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 104 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/551)] 57/186. Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 52/104 of 12 December 1997, in which it decided to review, not later than at its fifty-seventh session, the arrangements for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 2003, Recognizing the need for concerted international action on behalf of refugees and displaced persons of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Considering the outstanding work that has been performed by the Office of the High Commissioner in providing international protection and material assistance to refugees and displaced persons, as well as in promoting permanent solutions to their problems, Noting with deep appreciation the effective manner in which the Office of the High Commissioner has been dealing with various essential humanitarian tasks entrusted to it, 1. Decides to continue the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further period of five years from 1 January 2004; 2. Also decides to review, not later than at its sixty-second session, the arrangements for the Office of the High Commissioner with a view to determining whether the Office should be continued beyond 31 December 2008; 3. Further decides to consider at its fifty-eighth session proposals of the High Commissioner on the basis of his report, prepared in consultation with the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Secretary-General, regarding the strengthening of the capacity of the Office to carry out its mandate. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 2002 02 55058