Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Endorses the report of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the work of its 57th session (A/61/12/Add.1); re-emphasizes that the protection of refugees is primarily the responsibility of States, whose full and effective cooperation, action and resolve are required to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to fulfil its mandated functions, and strongly emphasizes, in this context, the importance of active international solidarity and burden- and responsibility-sharing; strongly condemns attacks on refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons as well as acts that pose a threat to their personal security and well-being; strongly reaffirms the fundamental importance and the purely humanitarian and non-political character of the function of the Office of the High Commissioner of providing international protection to refugees and seeking permanent solutions to refugee problems; calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner to widen its donor base, so as to achieve greater burden-sharing by reinforcing cooperation with traditional governmental donors, non-traditional donors and the private sector.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.