OSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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DISPLACED PEOPLE OF CENTRAL AMERICA
Thank you for your letter of 25 June 1986 to Baroness
Young. It has been passed to me, as Minister responsible
for UN matters, to reply.
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I understand that the suggestion, relayed in your
letter, that a request be made "to the General Assembly
inviting the UNHCR or an appropriate UN agency to
co-ordinate the provision of care and assistance to the
displaced", was one of the recommendations of the British
Refugee Council booklet "Uprooted: the displaced people
of Central America". In this booklet they define
displaced persons as those "forced ...to leave their
homes and home areas, but remain within the national
borders of their country". As the booklet says, they may
be the victims of natural disasters, or of armed
conflicts or civil strife. All types of displaced persons
may need material assistance and those displaced by armed
conflict or civil strife may also require physical and
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