Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Decision 1998/211

At its 5th plenary meeting, on 7 May 1998, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolution 116 (XII) of 26 November 1957, in which the Assembly provided for the establishment of an Executive Committee of the Programme of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as Assembly resolutions 1958 (XVIII) of 12 December 1963, 2294 (XXII) of 11 December 1967, 36/121 D of 10 December 1981, 42/130 of 7 December 1987, 45/138 of 14 December 1990, 48/115 of 20 December 1993, 49/171 of 23 December 1994, 50/228 of 7 June 1996 and 51/72 of 12 December 1996, in which the Assembly provided for subsequent increases in the membership of the Executive Committee, took note of the request regarding the enlargement of the Executive Committee contained in the annex to the note verbale dated 14 October 1997 from the Permanent Mission of Mozambique to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General¹, and recommended that the Assembly take a decision at its fifty-third session on the question of increasing the membership of the Executive Committee from fifty-three to fifty-four States.

1 E/1998/3