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d)

Some surkėstions:

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If a "clear of symptoms" period is applied, this should be reduced to a maximum of six months.

ii) All possible effort should be made to keep the refugeA family

intact. This may imply changes in selection criteria. A disabled or madically-at-risk refugee should be allowed to join his family if the latter is already resettled in a third country.

iii) UNHCA would like to suggest that governments not yet having adopted the "Twenty or More” plan consider doing so.

Such a decision should make it possible to accept the otherwise inadmissible "family reunion" cases. This would be the best solution for the refugees concerned and would also be in the spirit of burden-sharing with other countries which under ragular quotas and/or under special programmes assist disabled refugees.

UNHCR

Resettlement Section January 1986

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