UNITED NATIONS
ANNEX
NATIONS UNIES
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
Financial requirements for 1980
1. In resolution 33/26, the General Assembly having commended the
increasing number of contributors to the High Commissioner's Programmes
and emphasizing the need for a wider sharing of the financial burden, called upon Governments to provide the High Commissioner with necessary funds to attain the objectives of his humanitarian programme.
2. At its thirtieth session, held in Geneva in October 1979, the
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme approved a
target for the UNHCR General Programmes for 1980, in an amount of
US$ 233,895,000. Taking into account possible requirements under the
Special Programmes, UNHCR's total financial requirements for 1980 are
likely to remain in the order of some US$ 300 million. Whilst the
principal refugee situation continues to be that in South East Asia,
there are equally pressing refugee situations in Africa and Latin
America for which UNHCR assistance will be required in 1980. The
proposed allocations for 1980 are summarized in the attached list.
3. To enable the High Commissioner to implement his humanitarian
programme, which represents the basic minimum of necessary international
assistance to refugees, it is essential that the greatest number of
Governments extend that financial participation, including those
Governments which have not contributed in previous years but which
are in a position to do so, as well as Governments which, having
contributed in the past, now have the capacity to increase substantially
their participation. All Governments are therefore urged to announce
maximum financial support to the UNHCR Annual Programme for 1980 at
the Pledging Conference on 16 November 1979.
4. Such announcements are all the more necessary because of the
unprecedented magnitude of funds required and in order to enable the
High Commissioner launch his programmes at the very beginning of
1980 in an orderly manner. Prompt announcements by dovernments of
maximum unearmarked contributions to the High Commissioner's programme
would thus avoid a piecemeal uneconomic implementation of the programmes
which, in the final analysis would be detrimental to the welfare of
needy refugees.
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