The Representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Representative of the World Food Programme in

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are the

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of the

UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

and

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in the

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. They were formerly located at Strand Bridge House, a multi-use office building on the

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near

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File:Office of UNHCR-WFP in London 1.jpeg, The former office at Strand Bridge House File:Office_of_UNHCR-WFP_in_London_2.jpeg, Plaque outside old office at Strand Bridge House

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UNHCR-UK Official siteWFP Official site

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United Kingdom and the United Nations Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster Aldwych United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees {{coord missing, London

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