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

Decision 1993/315

¹ At its 45th plenary meeting, on 29 July 1993, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolution 1166 (XII) of 26 November 1957, in which the Assembly provided for the establishment of an Executive Committee of the Programme 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 and 45/138 of 14 December 1990, in which it 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 a note verbale dated 3 June 1993 from the Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General,² and recommended that the General Assembly take a decision at its forty-eighth session on the question of increasing the membership of the Executive Committee from forty-six to forty-seven States.

1 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 1 (E/1993/93)

2 E/1993/88.