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Mr. Mr Dewalt, Hove Affice!
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DRAFT DECISION ON THE GENERAL DEBATE Then enter.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PROGRAMME
Twenty-ninth session
The Executive Committee,
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(a) Expressed appreciation of the introductory statement by the High Commissioner
and noted with grave concern the many problems confronting his office;
(b) Commended the High Commissioner for the eminently humanitarian manner in which he has approached and discharged his functions during his first months in office, for the considerable effort he has personally made to visit major groups of refugees and displaced persons of concern to his Office, and for his efforts to mobilize international support and understanding on the widest possible basis;
(c) Stressed the need for further accessions to the 1951 Convention and 1967
Protocol, and fully shared the High Commissioner's preoccupations regarding the international protection of refugees;
(d) Expressed grave concern that refugees too often faced the threat of refoulement,
arbitrary detention and the denial of asylum and that, particularly in Southern Africa, their sucurity was imperilled by armed assaults across -international borders which the international community has consistently condemned;
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(e) Welcomed the High Commissioner's intention to call consultative meetings in
Geneva, or elsewhere, with all interested governments on matters that require continuing or urgent attention;
(f) Commended the High Commissioner for his comprehensive presentation of the
General Programmes for 1979 and stressed the need to ensure that, in the transfer of certain measures from Special to General Programmes, the needs of refugees in all regions of the world are appropriately and fully taken into account;
(g) Recognized, in this connexion, the value of communicating to governments an
estimate of global financial requirements over a three-year period and 'noted that, on the basis of current annual needs, this would amount to some
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