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Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Executive Committee Meetings

Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Decision 32/314

8 December 1977
General Assembly

1 At its 98th plenary meeting, on 8 December 1977, the General Assembly, on the proposal of the Secretary-General,2 elected Mr. Poul Hartling United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a five-year term beginning on 1 January 1978.

1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 45 (A/32/45).

2 A/32/401/Add.1.