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, ___________ 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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