A/RES/74/129
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 61
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and
displaced persons and humanitarian questions
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/393)]
74/129.
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 decisions 2019/248 of 23 July 2019
and 2020/204 of 15 October 2019 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 note verbale dated 3 June 2019 from the Permanent
Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary -General, 1
the note verbale dated 13 May 2019 from the Permanent Mission of Iceland to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, 2 the note verbale dated 26 July
2019 from the Permanent Mission of Mali to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General, 3 and the note verbale dated 8 November 2018 from the Permanent
Mission of Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary -General, 4
1.
Decides to increase the number of members of the Executive Committee
of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refug ees from
102 States to 106 States;
2.
Requests the Economic and Social Council to elect the additional members
at a meeting of its management segment in 2020.
50th plenary meeting
18 December 2019
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