64 DEVELOPMENT
ADOPTING THE
2030 AGENDA
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Opening remarks at the 66th session
of the Executive Committee of the
High Commissioner’s Programme.
António Guterres, United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees.
Geneva, 5 October 2015
When I started as High Commissioner ten years ago, there
were 38 million people in the world displaced by conflict and
persecution, but UNHCR was helping over a million persons
return home every year. Global refugee numbers were declining,
and old wars had recently been laid to rest in Angola, Liberia, Sierra
Leone and South Sudan to ma