The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created on December 14, 1950, through Resolution 428 (V) of the General Assembly, which creates the Statute of the Office, and which establishes the following: "approves the annex to this resolution that constitutes the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees," while the Statute refers in article 6 that the High Commissioner has competence in relation to to “Any person who has been considered a refugee under the Arrangements of May 12, 1926 and June 30, 1928, or the Conventions of October 28, 1933 and February 10, 1938, of the Protocol of the September 14, 1939 or of the Constitution of the International Refugee Organization ”. The International Refugee Organization, created in 1946, ceased its functions in 1952, passing the competence of the organization to the High Commissioner.