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World Food Programme (WFP), the International Labour Office (ILO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNESCO, World Health Organization (WHO), Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS), the International Council of Voluntary Agencies and the American Council of Voluntary Agencies.
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The principal tasks set for the liaison group were as follows:
(a) To review the situation of Indo-Chinese refugees and displaced persons and their specific material and resettlement needs;
(b) To determine what steps are being taken and can be taken by each organization represented in the group to meet these needs most effectively, avciding duplication of effort;
(c) To review in the same light offers of assistance received by members of the group from Governments or from organizations not represented in the group.
39. Discussions took place along the above-mentioned lines and the liaison group meeting thus established a broad framework for co-ordination of assistance and services, as well as for the exchange of information. Further meetings of the group as a whole, or smaller groups, according to the subject matter, are foreseen. UNHCR offices in the field have been instructed to convene similar meetings.
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Strengthening of staff
40. To act on all the measures described in the present report, UNHCR has had to send additional staff to the region. Thus, as at 30 September, 52 staff members had joined the UNHCR teams in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. These included Professional officers, mainly concerned with the organization of refugee movements, and General Service staff to assist in related tasks. Concurrently, the staff at UNHCR headquarters is also being strengthened.
41. Experts, technicians and volunteers, working under the aegis of UNHCR, have been sent to the ASEAN countries. The services of these persons have been placed at the disposal of UNHCR by Governments, the United Nations Volunteers programme and by voluntary agencies. The role of such personnel is mainly connected with the improvement of life in refugee settlements and assistance in the establishment of the refugee processing centres mentioned above. Services have thus been made available in a wide number of fields, such as education, vocational training, medicine, sanitation, nutrition, engineering and social welfare.
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Financial situation
The situation at the end of September 1979 of amounts paid or firmly pledged in cash and in kind towards the UNHCR in South-East Asia for refugees and displaced persons from Indo-China is included below (see annex II below). It shows a total of US124,856,737 for the general programmes and $US30,578,757 for the refugee processing centres, together $US155,435,494.
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