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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 37/319

18 December 1982

1 At its 111th plenary meeting, on 18 December 1982, the General Assembly, on the proposal of the Secretary-General,2 elected Mr. Poul Hartling United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further three-year term beginning on 1 January 1983.


1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 51 (A/37/51).

2 A/37/769, para. 3