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acting as a procurement agent for various types of relief material, allocated contributions from its own Emergency Fund for the provision of urgently-needed supplies. WHO made a cash grant used for the purchase of tons of medical supplies flown in while sending a mission to Cyprus to draw up a compre- hensive list

list of needs in the medical field. UNHCR organized regular meetings, both in Geneva and in Nicosia, of all con- cerned for purposes of information-sharing and decision-making.

43. Despite consideration of the Cyprus problem by the United Nations and many rounds of talks between Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot leaders, the island's division into two sectors. remains the obstacle to any wholesale return

return by all those displaced in 1974. The United Nations Humanitarian Assistance for Cyprus has been continued in the seven intervening years, through UNHCR, and has sought to promote farming and agricul- tural industries as well as small businesses, to create edu- cational facilities, particularly in the field of vocational training, and to meet the needs of socially-handicapped groups.

annual reports to the High Commissioner's Executive Committee show that from 1975 to the end of the decade, contri- butions in cash and

and in kind (including simple transfers of funds) amounted to over $ 125

$ 125 million. ICRC has continued to maintain a delegation in Cyprus, undertaking a range of activi- ties, including relief for Greek-Cypriots living in the north and the exchange across the "Green Line" dividing the two sectors of messages between members of divided families.

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44. Throughout the decade of the 1970s, diplomatic and other pressure on the South African administration to withdraw from Namibia in accordance with the 1966 United Nations decision to terminate South Africa's mandate over the territory built up while efforts continued to step up the liberation struggle of the Namibian people. The South African Defence Force and other representatives of South African authority not only

not maintained their hold on the country but increasingly imposed measures which constituted gross violations of human rights, one result of which has been an exodus which began in the months of 1974, when an estimated three thousand SWAPO sup- porters left and sought refuge in Zambia.

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