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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 45/319

21 December 1990

1 At its 72nd plenary meeting, on 21 December 1990, the General Assembly, on the proposal of the Secretary-General,2 elected Mrs. Sadako OGATA as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a period of three years beginning on 1 January 1991.


1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/45/49).

2 A/45/890, para. 3