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Voluntary repatriation and UNHCR involvement in implementing
programs of voluntary return can be the target of criticism from
well-meaning but misinformed groups opposed to the return of refugees to
their country of origin under any circumstances. It is only too easy for
such groups to label as "refoulement programs of voluntary repatriation
carefully negotiated by UNHCR over a period of months or years and
containing the most stringent guarantees for the well-being of those
voluntarily returning. The solution is international supervision
to ensure that repatriation is, in every real sense, voluntary and
-There elements follow-up monitoring, which should remain the minimum pre-conditions to
international sanction of these initiatives.
A strong and recurring theme of many interventions at this
year's Executive Committee meeting has been that the High Commissioner's
efforts towards durable solutions must be complemented by the political will
of countries, especially those involved in the problem, to tackle root
Limpel causes. Strikingly, that point has been made by source, receiving, donor
and resettlement countries.
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What can be done when perceived national self-interest of a
strategic, military, political or even economic character does not appear
fully to be compatible with the High Commissioner's aim of a durable
solution or strategies for a particular refugee group?
A first challenge is to re-examine continually, national
policies so as to determine how much and in what ways the humanitarian
interests of displaced people can be separated and isolated from conflicts
or antagonisms in which these people may be unwittingly involved.