A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/116
24 March 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 113
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/631)]
48/116.
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 Office, 1/ as well as the report of the
Executive Committee of the Programme of the High Commissioner on the work of
its forty-fourth session, 2/ and taking note of the statement made by the High
Commissioner on 4 November 1993, 3/
Recalling its resolution 47/105 of 16 December 1992,
Reaffirming the purely humanitarian and non-political character of the
activities of the Office of the High Commissioner, as well as the crucial
importance of the High Commissioner’s functions of providing international
protection to refugees and seeking solutions to refugee problems,
Welcoming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World
Conference on Human Rights, 4/ particularly as it reaffirms the right to seek
and enjoy asylum, and the right to return to one’s country,
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1/
A/48/12.
2/
A/48/12/Add.1.
3/
See A/C.3/48/Sr.23.
4/
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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