AGENDA ITEM B
RESCUE AT SEA AND DISERO
The United States urges UNHCR and the maritime
community to futher enhance the rescue of refugees in distress on the high seas through the continued availability of the disembarkation resettlement offers program. The United States has contributed resettlement 'opportunities to this program and will continue to
so on the basis of one such opportunity to three opportunities contributed by other countries.
Of course
the United States continues to provide resettlement for refugees rescued by U.S.-owned ships.
We urge
other nations to do the same for those rescued by
ships owned in their countries.