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Election of nine additional members of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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Election of nine additional members of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Decision 1979/52

1 August 1979

1 At its 38th plenary meeting, on 1 August 1979, the Council, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 33/25 of 29 November 1978, elected nine additional members of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The following States were elected: Argentina, Finland, Japan, Lesotho, Morocco, Nicaragua, Sudan, Thailand and Zaire. The new membership of the Committee is as follows:

Algeria, Morocco, Argentina, Netherlands, Australia, Nicaragua, Austria, Nigeria, Belgium, Norway, Brazil, Sudan, Canada, Sweden, China, Switzerland, Colombia, Thailand, Denmark, Tunisia, Finland, Turkey, France, Uganda, Germany Federal Republic of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, Holy See, United Republic of Tanzania, Iran, Israel, United States of America, Italy, Japan, Venezuela, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Lesotho, Zaire, Madagascar


1 Ibid., Supplement No. 1A (E/1979/79/Add.1)