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(d) Reiterated the crucial importance of voluntary repatriation as solution to present-day refugee problems and welcomed the continuing efforts of the High Commissioner to promote voluntary repatriation taking into account Conclusions No. 18 and 40 adopted by the Executive Committee at its thirty-first and thirty-sixth sessions respectively;
(e) Recognized that the search for durable solutions includes the need to address the causes of movements of refugees and asylum-seekers from countries of origin and the causes of onward movements from countries of first asylum;
(f) Welcomed the recent accessions of Equatorial Guinea, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea and Venezuela, to the 1951 United Nations Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, thereby bringing to over 100 the number of States parties to these basic humanitarian instruments and welcomed the efforts of the Office to promote further accessions to these instruments to which it was hoped that all members of the United Nations would in due course become parties;
(g) Reiterated the importance of national legislative and/or administrative measures to ensure the effective implementation of the standards defined in applicable international refugee instruments and welcomed the efforts of the High Commissioner to promote the further adoption of such measures;
(h) Reaffirmed the importance of the Office's efforts to promote the development and strengthening of international refugee law through the organization or support of round tables, seminars and discussion groups in different areas of the world and to ensure that the principles of international refugee law are as widely disseminated as possible;
(1) Recognized the value of international instruments defining standards for the treatment of refugees at the regional level and noted with appreciation the progress achieved in this field through the efforts of the Arab League, the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, the Council of Europe, the Organization of African Unity, the Organization of American States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference;
(j) Noted with concern that in different areas of the world, the basic rights of refugees and asylum-seekers have been seriously violated and that refugees and asylum-seekers have been exposed to physical violence, acts of piracy and forcible return to their country of origin in disregard of the principle of non-refoulement;
(k) Noted with concern that since the Committee's thirty-sixth session" refugee camps and settlements have continued to be the subject of military or armed attacks and expressed the hope that ongoing efforts to find a solution to this problem will lead to positive results in the near future;
(1) Recalled its Conclusion No. 39 on Refugee Women and International Protection and called upon the High Commissioner to continue to give due attention to the specific protection needs of refugee women and to continue to report to the Executive Committee on this matter;