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STANDING CONFERENCE OF BRITISH ORGANISATIONS FOR AID TO REFUGEES
6 MAY 1976
AKN243/5687/1
ternational Development Centre Parnell House Tel: 01-828 7616
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ASIA COMMITTEE
25 Wilton Road London SW1V ÍJS.
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HINUTES of the meeting held on Thursday 1 April 1976 at 2.30 p.m. in Room 7, British Council of Churches, Edinburgh House, 2 Eaton Gate, London SW1.
Chairman, Asia Committee
Chairman, Standing Conference
Observer:
UK representative of the UNHCR
PRESENT:
Mr. R.G.A. Etherington-Smith
Mr. H.L. Kirkley
Mr. J. Heidler
Organisations:
British Red Cross Society British Red Cross Society Christian Aid
Find Your Feet Limited Friends Service Council
Gordon Barclay Vietnam Fund Medical Aid for Vietnam Ockenden Venture
Oxfam
Project Vietnam Orphans Salvation Army
Save the Children Fund
Save the Children Fund
Tibet Society
Wings of Friendship
Secretary, Asia Committee
Asst. to Secretary
Miss S. Balfour Miss S. Quinn Miss V. Ferguson
Mrs. C. Martin
Miss K. Mallik Mrs. C. Barclay
Dr. J.K. McMichael Miss J. Pearce
Mr. B. Llewellyn
Rev. R.J. Clarke
Col. E. Denham
Mr. S. Cumber
Lady Alexandra Metcalfe
Miss F. Blackett
Mrs. G. Eedle
Miss N. Rice-Jones
Mrs. E. Dony
Apologies for Absence were received from the following:-
Friends Service Council
Help the Aged
Medical Aid for Vietnam
Sue Ryder Foundation
Miss B. Bowman
Mr. H. Goddard
Mr. C. Lefton
Miss Sue Ryder
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Minutes of the meeting held on 27 November 1976 which had been circulated, were confirmed and sigred with the following amendments:-
Page 2, Item 4,2 i para, 2no contence to read: "In the 1960s, its work was extended to Africa and later to the Indian sub-continent with problems resulting from the Indo-Pakistan war and the foundation of Bangladesh."
4th para, 1st sentence: Substitute "1974" for "1972/73"
6th para, last sentence to read: "The UN Secretary-General set up a joint UNICEF/UNHCR emergency relief programme in South Vietnam, while dozens of thousands of persons were displaced inside and outside Indochina."
Page 3, 2. LAOS, 1st para to read: "In September, the visitors went to Vienlane where the process of rehabilitation was proving well. The Government was still in a transitional stage. The American-built compounds really a complete city in which expatriates had lived had been taken over by the Laos and a campaign against many features associated with "Western decadence" clubs, flair trousers, high shoes, etc, had begun."
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2nd para, 3rd sentence: Substitute "many villages" for "almost every village"
3rd para, 1st sentence to read: "The UNHCR's programme aimed at assisting in in the return of some 120,000 to their villages in the Plain of Jars, a completely devastated area."
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