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ii.
the increasing of resettlement opportunities and the creation of conditions favourable to voluntary repatriation;
the strengthening of and respect for humanitarian principles;
Highly alarmed by recent reports of the severe financial crisis facing the UNHCR which, notwithstanding the especially high
contributions made by many member states, was occasioned by large- scale and indispensable emergency expenditure in Africa where food and medicine are in short supply;
14. Observing nevertheless that many member state contribution policies are erratic, and that some are disturbingly small,
15.
Recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite the governments
of the Member States:
a.
b.
to continue to assure and, whenever possible, to strengthen their support for the efforts of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on behalf of refugees and displaced persons, in particular by maintaining high standards for the international protection of refugees and displaced persons;
where they have not already done so, to withdraw geographical limitations to the 1951 Convention,
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and to ratify all relevant international legal instruments at the earliest possible opportunity;
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c.
if they do not already, to participate fully in the Rescue at Sea Resettlement Offers (RASRO) Scheme;
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e.
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h.
to ensure that national policies safeguard and respect the specific rights of refugees and do not restrictively apply the criteria for refugee status;
to fight the rise of xenophobia in the population of several Member States which, if not arrested, would undermine the entire humanitarian structure established for the benefit of refugees;
to refrain from resorting to practices intended to discourage the arrival of further asylum-seekers;
to give all due attention to the phenomena of transfrontier flows and large-scale influxes, in order to avoid or diminish their occurrence;
to ensure that contributions to the financing of UNHCR'8 humanitarian programmes are both reasonably consistent and commensurate with Europe's relative affluence, with a view to promoting durable solutions to the refugee problems, inter alia:
1. by the granting of permanent asylum whenever possible; ii. by the continued provision and, where necessary, the
increasing of resettlement opportunities;
iii. by the creation of conditions favourable to
voluntary repatriation.