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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/75
12 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 105
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/614)]
51/75.
Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees on the activities of her Office1 and the report of the Executive
Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees on the work of its forty-seventh session,2
Recalling its resolution 50/152 of 21 December 1995,
Reaffirming the fundamental importance of the 1951 Convention3 and the
1967 Protocol4 relating to the Status of Refugees, in particular their
implementation in a manner fully compatible with the object and purpose of
those instruments, and noting with satisfaction that one hundred and thirtytwo States are now parties to one or both instruments,
1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement
No. 12 (A/51/12).
2
A/51/12/Add.1 and Corr.1; see Official Records of the General Assembly,
Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 12A.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
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