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ALGIERS TELNO 137: UNHCR ASSISTANCE TO SAHARAOUI REFUGEES IN
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1. IN VIEW OF WHAT BODEMAR TOLD HMA ALGIERS IT IS PERHAPS JUST AS WELL TO HAVE RESISTED THE TEMPTATION TO COMMENT, WHEN REPORTING THE LATEST MOROCCAN DEMARCHE, THAT THE MOROCCANS' POINTS ABOUT LOCATION AND ACCESS, AT LEAST, DID NOT SEEM UNREASONABLE. A CRUDE CALCULATION SUGGESTS IT IS FURTHER FROM ALGIERS TO TINDOUF THAN FROM LONDON TO THE PYRENEES. BUT THOSE MORE FAMILIAR WITH UNHCR OPERATIONS WORLD-WIDE WILL BE BEST PLACED-TO JUDGE HOW NORMAL OR
ACCEPTABLE THE CONDITIONS IN ALGERIA ARE.
2. NO DOUBT THE MOROCCANS WILL AGAIN BE PRESSING THEIR CASE IN GENEVA ALSO. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW UNHCR STAFF THERE RESPOND ON THE QUALIFICATIONS OF BODEMAR AND HIS STAFF TO INFORM REFUGEES ABOUT THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE WESTERN SAHARA AND ENCOURAGE THEIR RETURN. WE ARE NOT AWARE OF ANY RECENT ON THE SPOT INVESTIGATION OF CONDITIONS THERE BY UNHCR.
3. ALTHOUGH THERE COULD OBVIOUSLY BE A CONNECTION BETWEEN AN EVENTUAL CENSUS AND THE PROXIMITY TALKS NOW GOING ON UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL, THE MOROCCANS' DEMARCHE LOOKS FROM HERE MORE LIKE A FREE-STANDING MOVE IN THE LONG RUNNING, CAMPAIGN THEY HAVE MOUNTED TO CURB INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THE COST CF RUNNING THE TINDOUF CAMPS.
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