CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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1986 (Executive Committee—37 th Session)<br />
No. 42 (XXXVII) ACCESSION TO INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND <strong>THE</strong>IR<br />
IMPLEMENTATION ∗ (1986)<br />
The Executive Committee,<br />
(a) Recalled that in numerous earlier conclusions the Executive Committee had appealed to States to<br />
accede to the 1951 United Nations Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and that<br />
similar appeals had also been addressed to Governments in various resolutions of the United Nations General<br />
Assembly;<br />
(b) Noted with satisfaction that more than 100 States had now become parties to the 1951 Convention<br />
and/or the 1967 Protocol;<br />
(c) Recognized that these instruments incorporate fundamental principles of refugee law including the<br />
principle of non-refoulement and lay down minimum standards for the treatment of refugees and thus constitute<br />
the corner-stone of international protection;<br />
(d) Stressed that accession to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol implies a commitment to and a<br />
reinforcement of the fundamental principles which these instruments embody, underlines the importance<br />
attached by each acceding State to international efforts to solve refugee problems and reflects the universal<br />
character that the refugee problem has now assumed;<br />
(e) Recognized that widespread accession to these instruments reaffirms their universal applicability and<br />
serves to reinforce the international legal framework for the protection of refugees and thereby facilitates the<br />
exercise of the High Commissioner's international protection function;<br />
(f) Called on States not having acceded to the 1951 United Nations Convention and the 1967 Protocol<br />
relating to the Status of Refugees to accede to these instruments;<br />
(g) Recommended consideration of the withdrawal of the geographical limitation and reservations to these<br />
instruments by those States which still maintain them;<br />
(h) Recalled that the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol are complemented by various international<br />
instruments of relevance to refugees adopted at the universal level as well as by a number of standard setting<br />
instruments adopted at the regional level and called upon States to consider acceding to such additional<br />
universal instruments and to such other instruments as are applicable to their region;<br />
(i) Noted that accession to the various international refugee instruments, whether of a universal or regional<br />
character, is now of utmost importance in view of the magnitude and the seriousness of the contemporary<br />
refugee problem and requested the High Commissioner to continue his efforts at the highest level to promote<br />
further accession to the international refugee instruments;<br />
(j) Recommended to States which have not yet done so, to consider adopting appropriate legislative and/or<br />
administrative measures for the effective implementation of the international refugee instruments, making the<br />
necessary distinction between refugees and other aliens.<br />
∗ CONCLUSION ENDORSED <strong>BY</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>EXECUTIVE</strong> COMMITTEE OF <strong>THE</strong> HIGH COMMISSIONER’S<br />
PROGRAMME UPON <strong>THE</strong> RECOMMENDATION OF <strong>THE</strong> SUB-COMMITTEE OF <strong>THE</strong> WHOLE ON<br />
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF REFUGEES<br />
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