Date: 8 - 12 October 2019

2019 Executive Committee Session

Name: 2019 Executive Committee Session
Start: Tue, 10/08/2019 - 05:27
End: Sat, 10/12/2019 - 05:27

Date

8 October 2019 12 October 2019

Public event

70^th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme

To view video recordings of the 70^th session of the Executive Committee, please click on the links below:

Longing and belonging: the quest to end statelessness (UNHCR's ExCom 2019 Keynote Video)
High-level Segment on Statelessness
Opening statement by the High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi
Keynote address by the Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations, Ms. Amina Mohammed
General debate: first part [begins at 1:06:30]; second part; third part; fourth part; fifth part; sixth part; seventh part

Consult French-language documentation

Documents are also available on the United Nations Official Documents System (ODS) in the required languages.

The Nansen Refugee Award ceremony will take place on Monday evening, 7 October 2019 in Geneva. For more information, including on the 2019 winner, please visit www.unhcr.org/nansen.

Provisional list of participants (as of 7 October 2019)

Preliminary estimated schedule

Information note for delegations

Organizational note

Order of business for the opening

1. Opening of the session, adoption of the agenda
and other organizational matters

Provisional agenda and annotations

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

3. High-level segment on statelessness and general debate

4. Consideration of reports on the work of the Standing Committee

5. Consideration of reports relating to programme and administrative oversight and evaluation

Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1193)
Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1194)

6. Consideration and adoption of the biennial programme budget 2020-2021

Biennial programme budget 2020-2021 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1191)
Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/AC.96/1191/Add.1)

7. Review of the annual consultations with non governmental organizations

Report on the 2019 annual consultations with non-governmental organizations

8. Other statements

9. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2020

10. Consideration of the provisional agenda of the seventy-first session of the Executive Committee

11. Election of officers

12. Any other business

13. Adoption of the report of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee

Report of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme

14. Closing of the session

Closing statement by the High Commissioner

Regional updates

Side events

Summary records

Consult the online collection of ExCom documents from 41^st to 71^st session. View all documents (All sessions) or select by session.

Global sites

Regional sites

Country sites