In terms of thinking about the future, I would like to put
forward a serious
concern and a realistic challenge.
The concerr
well-being cf refugees
in camps.
Withou†
care,
the
relates to the
forgetting the
relative
many vulnerable refugees under our
absence of stark deprivation in Thailand, in constrast
to other parts of the world, has perhaps led us to think that all
But I think we know that all
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"well"
is not well.
In
the
WE must nonetheless
absence. of graphic scenes of deprivation,
contend with problems of dependency and despair that have
charectorised so many refugee situations around the world. What
should focus Om
is a dialogue among all concerned parties On
encourage refugees to help
themselves.
Ways
to
assistance should not merely be indefinite subsistence.
takes
Refugee
This
care of the present but clearly at the risk of destroying
the refugees human dignity and their hopes for the future.
Let
me MOVE
from
my Concern Over
the
present
refugees in Thailand to a challenge for the future.
situation of
In doing so.
I
want to speak frankly.
ar
conducted
in
=
Many of our
vacuum, a bit in
discussions
OR
solutions
the
belief that
good
intentions will somehow persevere that humanitarian efforts 10
the absence
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of political will can succeed. Let me make
that UNHCR would wish nothing more than to see the
clear
humanitariar
process be separated from other considerations, but it is through
and
daunting
challenges
would like to quote
at
a frank assessment of the interplay between the humanitarian
the political that we can be aware of the
that lie ahead. In this connection,
Some length, the recent words of the High Commissioner: