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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees,
including children and unaccompanied minors, and noting that further efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
Recalling the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the 1951 Convention2 and
the 1967 Protocol3 relating to the Status of Refugees,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;4
2. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and
emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate
information on their number and whereabouts;
3. Expresses the hope once again that adequate resources will be provided for programmes of
identification and tracing of unaccompanied refugee minors;
4. Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with
other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing
refugee family separation, considering the importance of family unity;
5. Calls upon all Governments, the Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner, all United
Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to
exert the maximum effort to assist and protect refugee minors and to expedite the return to and reunification
with their families of unaccompanied refugee minors;
6. Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international
organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources
commensurate with the needs and interests of unaccompanied refugee minors and towards their reunification
with their families;
7. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law,
and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 19495 and related instruments, while bearing in mind resolution 2 adopted at the twenty-sixth
International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, held at Geneva from 3 to 7 December 1995,
and to respect the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which accord children affected
by armed conflict special protection and treatment;
8. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers
or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that
endanger their safety and personal security;
9. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children's Fund and other United
1
Resolution 44/25, annex.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
3
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
4
A/52/273.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
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