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proposal that countries should announce resettlement quotas.

The FRG announced a contribution of DM lm for Indo-Chinese

refugees.

(c) Africa

The refugee situation in the different countries of Africa was

discussed by most speakers. There were appeals for increased

assistance from Zaire, Sudan, Zambia, ZANU (for Mozambique) and

from Ethiopia and Somalia on behalf of refugees in the Horn.

In fairly restrained terms the liberation movements (ZAPU, ZANU,

SWAPO) spoke about the situation in Southern Africa, ZAPU

mentioning particularly the plight of refugee children in

Botswana and Zambia. In General Assembly style the Nigerian

circulated a draft resolution the Executive Committee does not

which among other things condemned the

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racist regimes and their attacks on refugee camps.

however, persuaded to forego his draft in favour of the

traditional format of decisions prepared in apolitical style by

the Secretariat. Once again a strong political note was injected

into the debate by the now ritual clash between the Ambassadors

of Morocco and Algeria over the Saharawi refugees in the Tindouf

area of Algeria. With much skill and tact the Chairman eventually

brought this bilateral argument to an end on the understanding

that he would work out a balanced text for the report with the two

representatives after the meeting. In the meantime the Moroccan

tried to solicit support for a draft decision which he circulated

expressing the Moroccan point of view. This was eventually

dropped in favour of the Chairman's compromise text for the report.

Many speakers referred to the Pan African Conference on African

Refugee Problems to be held in Arusha (Tanzania) in August 1979

and the High Commissioner undertook to give it his full support.

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